Influences Quotes

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

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've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.