Quotes About Influence

If you're passionate about it, speak up about it. Just show up, do your part, and make your voice heard, because at the end of the day, all we have is our voice and our platforms and our character.

Social media has democratised platforms of expression so much - now a child can have a very loud voice.

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

China will continue to play its part as a major and responsible country.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

The media has a key role to play in ending corruption.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

My brother-in-law was a Tottenham fan. He introduced me to football and brought me to Tottenham. At the time I just wanted to play football so I would go anywhere to play.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

Besides my father, who used to be a footballer at the local level, it is Messi for whom I started to play football.

My parents didn't play golf.

I don't play golf. I don't play basketball. I don't really like cards. I don't think anybody questions whether or not I have a role to play here. And so I think it is irrelevant whether the president wants to do that in some of his free time. What's really important is, when we have something to say, does he listen to us?

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Pearl Jam's 'Alive' is the reason I started to play music.

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.