Influence of Music Quotes

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

One of my college roommates was into The Police, and I got to like them. But I hear one of the guys left the band.

I wouldn't be here without Girls' Generation. If there were no Girls' Generation, there would be no me.

I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen to it around my parents. Kids would come over to my house to listen to Too $hort records.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.