Quotes About Influence

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.

The two biggest influences of the '70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

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

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.