Influences Quotes

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

'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.

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.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

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

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

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.

My first influences were superhero artists.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

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.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

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

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.