Quotes About Influence

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

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He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)