Quotes About Influence

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

If anyone can be said to embody the American Dream, it's Kim Kardashian West.

I loved everything, but it was Kanye West who really changed everything for me.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.

I always heard 50 Cent, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, all that in the house. My mom's playing them - 50 Cent, Kanye West.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

The West ain't been the same without 'Pac.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

People in the West want to hear Indian melody, not someone who is aping the West.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

Meeting Kanye West was a blessing.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.