Influences Quotes

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
Gilbert Hernandez

Two, Biggest, Menace

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

Working, Material, Composer

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
John T. Flynn

Revolution, Through, Interested

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
Evangeline Lilly

Life, Family, Dad

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt

Older, Stuff, Definitely

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.
Steven Adler

Different, Made, Stars

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Around, Themselves, English

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
Johnny Winter

Two, Find, Whole

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Chris Cornell

Music, Rock, Wanted

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

Big, Wanted, Whatever

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

Society, Medical, Impact

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Mary Augusta Ward

Home, Live, Child

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae

Life, Time, Done

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
Tea Obreht

Life, Mother, Writing

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
Tea Obreht

Place, Interested, Characters

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
Joel Hodgson

Science, Show, Mystery

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.
Tom Udall

Today, Parents, Football

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
Esperanza Spalding

Plan, Jazz, Pot

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Ross MacDonald

Greatest, Trying, Made

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
Haley Reinhart

Time, Different, Sing

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
Haley Reinhart

Dad, Rock, Everything

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Him, Place, Matter

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
Micky Dolenz

Jerry, Berry, Chuck

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.
Stacie Orrico

Music, Spiritual, Through

My first influences were superhero artists.
Scott McCloud

Artists, Superhero

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
Roy Wood

Time, Good, Power

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
Rod Blagojevich

Government, Children, Parents

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.
Stuart Pearce

Life, Parents, Football

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.
Jonny Lang

Time, Long, Guitar

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley

Single, Read, Both

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