Quotes About Influence

I studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had studied piano with Anton Rubinstein and composition with Tchaikovsky. Felix, my professor, was the right hand of Anton Rubinstein. Blumenfeld knew his playing by heart, from every angle.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.

During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

I studied in London, so I was high street fashion conscious. For me it was more about fitting in rather than standing out.

I wanted to be Ronaldinho. I studied him a lot. He was my hero.

I have studied many politicians closely.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it.

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.