Quotes About Influence

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

You don't need to hold them, Just let them choose if they want to stay or be free.You're not a rope, You're a magnet.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.