Influence
I happened to write "Spinning Around," that I gave to Kylie Minogue. She hadn't done a record in seven years and was looking for a great dance number. It literally re-launched her career, and when all these kids came into audition for Pop Idol, they sang "Spinning Around."
—Paula Abdul on the song, to Ocala Star-Banner.Due to the title of the song it has been used regularly in reference to politics, for example BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election and Andrew Marr's news report on Tony Blair's resignation speech.
Read more about this topic: Spinning Around
Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“What do women want with votes, when they hold the sceptre of influence with which they can control even votes, if they wield it aright?”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)
“A bestial and violent man will go so far as to kill because he is under the influence of drink, exasperated, or driven by rage and alcohol. He is paltry. He does not know the pleasure of killing, the charity of bestowing death like a caress, of linking it with the play of the noble wild beasts: every cat, every tiger, embraces its prey and licks it even while it destroys it.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)