Quotes About Influence

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

You have to connect your work to what people are doing. A good way is to construct a bridge between theory and practice - Amartya Sen and I tried this by founding the Human Development and Capabilities Association where practitioners meet theoreticians and their discourse influences practice.

As a musician, you want to be your own favorite artist and be able to make the music that is an accumulation of all your favorite influences.

I think Hazard influences the team so much that anywhere he goes you have to give him the ball.

I am very proud of my mother - she is one of the greatest influences in my life.

I think on some level, you always carry your first and biggest influences with you, whether it's the Allman Brothers or Col. Bruce Hampton, people that you learned a huge amount of what you do from. So it's always there.

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

I'm becoming hip to my children because bands of their generation name us as influences, so you can definitely hear it, the same way as we were influenced by other people.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

Don't be afraid to play what you feel and what you think no matter what it is. If you play long enough, you start to move past your influences and find your own music.

Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.

I don't have any influences, I influence people. People watch me.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

Rush and guitarist Alex Lifeson are among my biggest influences.

One of my big influences as a young player was Allen Iverson. All I wanted to do was the left-to-right crossover, because that's the one he was doing most.

Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love that challenge of keeping up with it, which is important as a pop artist.

Lifestyle off the field influences your play on the field.

I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.