I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Kathy Acker

I was always influenced by language.
Helen Dunmore

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
Willie Nelson

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
Ted Demme

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
Bob Newhart

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Kenneth Koch

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
Zac Efron

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
Kip Winger

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris DeMent

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
Tony Iommi

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Thom Gunn

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
Ruben Blades

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Mick Taylor

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
Ann Patchett

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
Helen Reddy

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
Christy Turlington

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.
D. L. Hughley

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
Kip Winger

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
Kenneth Koch