Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Milliseconds influence centuries.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

My first influences were superhero artists.

My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.