Quotes About Influence

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.