Quotes About Influence

I'm not so sure we've influenced the general market. But I'm not sure we're trying to do that.

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

It's really weird when you realize the people you look up to - who have influenced or inspired you - start to realize what you do.

No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.

Madonna influenced me a lot. She's all about really being yourself and not giving a care in the world, and I really take after that.

I was highly influenced by violence.

Whether we know it or not, each of our decisions is influenced by what we want to see or think.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That's not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.

I've gotten lots of great advice from lots of people that I admire, but the person who influenced me more than anyone in my life was my grandmother.

My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that.

That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

I think people will always be interested in crimes of passion. And I don't think you can do a genre-heavy show and not be influenced by successful, beautiful stories that have gone before.

I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing.

Technology influenced me in that it gave me an opportunity to have a voice as a woman. I think it's because the barriers to entry tend to be a bit lower.