Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all. — Redfoo Copy Share Image
Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch. — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
Why should racism go away when we are not tackling it in the right way? We are influenced by what we see… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and… — Frankie Knuckles Copy Share Image
Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social… — James Wan Copy Share Image
That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were… — Joe Flaherty Copy Share Image
I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
With me, Im a big fan of brothers like Slick Rick and Rakim and [Big Daddy] Kane and Biz [Markie] and all… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by many things. Simply turning on the television, I feel inundated with images and messages to be a certain way.… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Eating good things and being around people who are happy - you want to be influenced by the world because it has… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon… — John Niven Copy Share Image
![“With me, Im a big fan of brothers like Slick Rick and Rakim and [Big Daddy] Kane and Biz [Markie] and all them cats. Them was the dudes that I really followed outside of us; us meaning the Clan. These are the dudes that basically influenced me and I just feel like Im a melting pot of all those…” quote by Raekwon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4e/raekwon-3709_big-daddy_with-me-im-a-big-fan-of-brothers-like-sl_206326.jpg)
