I have been influenced by music. I grew up listening to blues, jazz and all. — Redfoo Copy Share Image
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
Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch. — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced. — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story. — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot. — Nobu Matsuhisa 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'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on. — Kurt Vile 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
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Abba, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Sting, Bryan Adams and Billy Joel have all influenced my musical development. — KK 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
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
Growing up and playing guitar with my dad and stuff like really influenced me. It definitely must've had an impact on why… — Trace Cyrus Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they… — Lou Holtz 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've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn 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
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 just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing.… — Fiona Apple 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 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
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound 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/i/b4e/raekwon-3709_big-daddy_with-me-im-a-big-fan-of-brothers-like-sl_206326.png)
