Quotes About Impact

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.

I don't want to do films for money and go back. I want to try to at least change the world through cinema, the industry, the way cinema is conceived.

I can't really affect anything else other than when I'm on the pitch, so I try and concentrate on that.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

Kids started coming to my concert, and I realized that I had sense of responsibility.

I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.

I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

We all have friends that we confide in and talk to about our relationships. At times, we do not recognize the effect that this has on our relationship. We take a lot of what other people have to say to heart, and rightly or wrongly, it makes our way into our relationships.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

If my music has power, I don't have to hashtag anything. If it has to connect with someone, it will. That has been my experience.

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.