Quotes About Influence

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.