Influenced Quotes

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.