Influences Quotes · Page 3

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

— Jordan Peele

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

The influences I had were all people with versatile interests who had a large world view.

— Robin Lopez

For my style influences you've got to look at Kanye first. Pharrell when I was growing up, too.

— Nick Young

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

— Ashley Madekwe

Nayakan,' 'Sathya' and 'Thevar Magan' are my biggest influences.

— Gautham Menon

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

— Nuno Bettencourt

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

— Billy Squier

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a…

— Arlo Guthrie

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing…

— Tom Rath

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry…

— Stacie Orrico

I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those were my main…

— Cassadee Pope

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we…

— Charlotte Caffey

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making…

— Panda Bear

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's…

— J. August Richards

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between…

— Aeriel Miranda

We're constantly hearing new influences everywhere. I say "new influences," but a lot of the stuff that influenced the record was music…

— Gym Class Heroes

Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record Folie A Deux in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily…

— Patrick Stump

'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a…

— Brandon Flowers

[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of…

— Paul Kengor

I'm certainly aware of the fans. I'm always hoping that what I'm doing is something they'll like, because I do appreciate them.…

— Tom Scholz

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the…

— Jason Isbell

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

— Rex Orange County

I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

— OMI

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

— Rosemary M. Wixom

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

— Manuel Puig

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

— Scott Weiland

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

— Xavier Dolan

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

— Nick Flynn

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

— Dan Fogelberg

You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.

— Masego

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

— Masaba Gupta

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

— Brantley Gilbert

I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.

— Jain