Quotes About Influence

Be yourself and work as hard as you can. Don't let anybody influence you to not be yourself.

My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the road to becoming a professional, and now I play just for him.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

I'm not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard.

If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as if I've done my job.

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.

Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.

I'm bigger than the Beatles!

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

The Beatles will exist without us.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

The Beatles will go on and on.

I really like The Beatles.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.