There are major influences on us that people are not aware…

“In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?”

— Mat Johnson

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.

— Mithila Palkar

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major…

— Gene Wolfe

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade.…

— Jim Morrison

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of…

— J. Robert Spencer

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my…

— James Arthur

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some…

— Jon Secada

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

— Rob Brown

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast…

— Mark Zuckerberg

My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' era 50 cent.

— J Hus

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

— Paul Lambert

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang…

— Jay DeMarcus