Quotes About Influence

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I grew up listening to English music.