Quotes About Influence

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

When I sit down with filmmakers, I feel like we speak the same language in a lot of ways. We watch the same movies and have the same influences. If anything, it creates a dialogue that makes my work more effective.

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

When you're young, influences count.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.

The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.

My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.

I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

For me, 'Blade Runner' is one of the big influences in my life - I saw it when I was 13 or 14, when it first came out, and since, I've seen it many, many times.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.