David Quote by Tom Herman

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

— Jonah Hill

Mike Patton and Dave Lombardo - those guys are a good, heavy influence.

— Danny Carey

Who are my influences? Everybody.

— Cameron Esposito

I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.

— Christian Laettner

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

— August Wilson

As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles,…

— Eric Carmen

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because…

— Michael Jackson

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I have so many influences, you couldn't write them all down.

— Susan Tedeschi

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins,…

— Kenny G

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

— Sturgill Simpson