Addresses Quote by Harold Bloom

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of…

— Nick Cave

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

— Horace Silver

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of…

— Emeril Lagasse

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that…

— Zach Galifianakis

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

— Horace Silver

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or…

— William O. Douglas

Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light…

— Tom Robbins

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism,…

— Kurt Cobain

“Although a youth culture was in evidence by the 1950s, the first obvious and dramatic manifestation of a culture generated by peer-orientation was the…

— Gabor Maté

“I'm staying out of this. It's the whole culture of all-consuming nowness I try to avoid. Ever present and screaming its message in the…

— Deb Caletti

“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied monster—even its…

— Sov8840

... there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove…

— Jim Banks