America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you. — Masego Copy Share Image
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side. — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well. — Brantley Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music… — Grimes Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Firstly, I'd say that A. R. Rahman sir is one of the biggest influences in my life. He's given me some great… — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am saying that outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially. You have chosen… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice… — Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the… — Adam Hicks Copy Share Image
I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up. — Jain Copy Share Image
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me. — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
