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.

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

My first influences were superhero artists.

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.

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.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

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.

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