Quotes About Influence

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.