Quotes About Influence

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I was always influenced by language.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.

The Steelers have influenced everything I've done as an adult.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but people who I thought were great enough that they really made a difference. And so I would never want to be disappointed by them, and I want to make sure I never disappoint audience.

Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.