Quotes About Influence

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

Pharrell is a person who has influenced the world. I see myself in him, so I said, 'You're an alpha, and I'm an alpha, and I want to be able to express myself in every way, like you do.'

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.

I have never had anything to do with the kind of fashion that is influenced by the press or identified with the spirit of the season. My clients come for me; they come back each season for my spirit. That's the reality.

There are all kind of corners of the musical world that are deeply influenced by the Dead that one wouldn't expect. Lee Ranaldo is a crazy Deadhead.