Influences Quotes

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.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

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

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

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.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

I just have a lot off different influences.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

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

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

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.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

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

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

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

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.