Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
Who are my influences? Everybody.
Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.
Anyone who influences others is a leader.
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.
My first influences were superhero artists.
When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.
I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.
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.
I feel very conscious of my influences. T. H. White is very important for me.
Your environment influences your mindset.
In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.
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.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.