I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.
TV has changed everything.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
All media work us over completely.
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.
Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.
It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.
