Career Quote by Hilary Hahn

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In…

— Jerry Leiber

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

— Ja Rule

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into…

— Tony Iommi

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back…

— Donny Osmond

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the…

— Jencarlos Canela

Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb…

— Meg Whitman

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and…

— Laura van den Berg

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or…

— Jim Lee

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences.

— Cody Simpson

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

— Axl Rose

“We are constantly evolving products of the influences we take into our brains. What we look at, what we long for-to a large extent,…

— Anne Bogel

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne