Quotes About Influence

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.

'What's Going On' is one of the greatest albums ever made. I definitely wasn't aiming to make my 'What's Going On,' you know what I mean? That album is definitely deep in my DNA. I've probably listened to that more than maybe any other album ever in my entire life.

For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!

I'm proud to say I've never listened to that 'Gangnam Style.'

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

In football and even outside football, every time I've listened to Zlatan, I've made a good decision.

People associate me with Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, but these aren't people that I listened to growing up. I got into them much later.

I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.

I asked a lot of my artist friends and just friends in general what their favorite albums of all time were. I made this massive list and I just listened to all of them, all the way through.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.

I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.

I grew up listening to old soul.

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other people have liked and admired his lifestyle.

All literature is political.

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.