Influential Quotes - Page 3

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

I know I'm the most influential.

Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

The city is always influential in the work, though I've had that temptation to leave, but only recently. It's difficult because whenever I start working someplace else, I'm like, "Man, this would have been better if I had my subwoofer."

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.