Quotes About Influence

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

When I was a boy I was my father.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

I have become my own father.

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

My father was a lawyer.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.