Quotes About Influence

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.

When I was playing in Seattle and Orlando, I did a lot of work with the Ronald McDonald House. I've always had a special thing for kids, and I know how important it is for kids to have good role models. They push us to that next level.

He was in Boston and I grew up in Orlando. It's not so much like father-son, it's coach-player.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.

I think The Meters are like The Beatles to us in New Orleans, you know.

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

New Orleans made me who I am.

The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'