[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that…

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;…

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

— Immanuel Kant

I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on…

— Rokia Traore

I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't…

— Mose Allison

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

Everything in life influences my music.

— Jason Mraz

Nas, Big L, Rakim, Jay-Z, Eminem, those was all my influences, but I didn't start recording until I was 16.

— Cordae

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences.

— Cody Simpson

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

— Axl Rose

“We are constantly evolving products of the influences we take into our brains. What we look at, what we long for-to a large extent,…

— Anne Bogel

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar…

— Steve Miller

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

— Ambrose Bierce