Quotes About Influence

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I love this young people's music.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.