Harold Budd Quotes

I like being in charge of the remote control.

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

I have the power to control the crowd's emotions.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

I just want to be dominant.

I want to be dominant from day one.

I've always known I've had power.

Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

Being in the gaffer's seat is very special.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Through obedience learn to command.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing