I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
Fred Frith

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
Harrison Birtwistle

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.
Edward Moore

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
Brad Dourif

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
Samuel Wilson

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
Deana Carter

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
Lee Ann Womack

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
Buck Owens

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Robert Wyatt

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
Andy Garcia

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Melvin Calvin

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
Hal Price

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
Bruce Jackson

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
LeAnn Rimes

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
Ednita Nazario

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
George Crumb

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
Yo-Yo Ma

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
Bobby McFerrin