Quotes About Influence

All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state.

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

The fans have been an enormous influence on my career. Playing shows around the world and connecting with them is such a big inspiration in my life.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.

My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.

I have no connections with any political event.

The way Salman connects with his audience, I love it! I am trying to learn that from him.

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

I love Bon Iver. I would never put a negative connotation on that man's name!

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

In Brazil, we have the culture to try to conquer the refs.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.

As film makers or any artiste that put work out there, what you are doing on your level is that you are putting consciousness out into the world.