A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate. . . Everything that happens to you influences your writing. . . The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience. . . I have yet to write that one song that defines my career. . . Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.
I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.
The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.
I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to
It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.
Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
My teaching influences who you are and who you become, I said, because insofar as I persuade you to change what you know, I can't help but persuade you to change who you are. A vast portion of who you are just is a matter of what you know.
My first influences were superhero artists.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.