Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

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 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!

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

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

My first influences were superhero artists.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 major influence was my ten years older sister.

My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

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.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

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

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that's it's okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

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.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.