Quotes About Influence

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I grew up with reggae music.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.