Quotes About Influence

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.