Quotes About Influence

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Bad music can make you weak.