Music dictates culture, and culture dictates music; they…

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

— Zakk Wylde

Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.

— Joe Budden

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

— Keith Rabois

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

— Keith Rabois

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

— John McLaughlin

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

— John Patitucci

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

— Mitt Romney

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

— Tahar Rahim

“I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates…

— Jean Cocteau

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

“It is the heart which dictates, which rules, which lets us live and die.”

— F. Sionil José

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

— Anonymous

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

— Joseph Brodsky

“It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a…

— Suze Orman