Quotes About Influences

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

I found my father through other people, through my older brothers, my high school coaches, so I had men influences along the way who helped me.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

I think you can hear all my hip hop influences in 'Just Kids.'

I definitely take influences from my idols David Bowie and Billy Joel. I've combined them with the Frankie Grande-isms that I've cultivated over singing every night for two shows a week for four years on Broadway.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

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.

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

Nayakan,' 'Sathya' and 'Thevar Magan' are my biggest influences.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

But design has never been a Europe-only project. The best of design has global influences. And we've got to design the future immigration system to make sure that we continue to attract the brightest and best.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

I was familiar with Lovecraft, I also was familiar with his history as a person. So I had read his stories but I wasn't bananas like I think that a lot of people get bananas. I was like, they're good and I can definitely see the influences - but I can definitely read them and see the parts where you're being racist right there in your own stories.

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I ever heard was jazz and it was American jazz, and it was big-band jazz, to be more defined.

More than influences, my music is based on instincts. I make music to match the script and the world of the film.

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.