Quotes About Influence

Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

I feel like no matter what we do though, we'll always have hip-hop and a little bit of R&B in our music.

It feels wonderful that people, both young and old, listen to our music, and that it still makes an impact.

We can't, nor should we try, to influence who our employees vote for, but facilitating their involvement in civic action is better for business, better for our people, and better for our government institutions.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Pele was the best of his era, Diego Maradona was the Pele of the Eighties, and Ronaldinho is the Pele of our time.

Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory be a blessing.

Our world desperately needs real leadership.

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

The Russian leadership doesn't operate in the same way as ours does. Informal networks have a much more important role to play than formal networks.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.