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My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe D, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy.
I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.
I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
I think that because I have so many different influences, and that shows in my music, that different people can connect with it.
We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.
But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.
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.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.
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.
I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
Come out and say it, Zuckerberg - 'Our platform that influences billions of people is being used to propagandize left-wing viewpoints.'
One of my biggest influences is Mac Miller, so to follow in his footsteps would be incredible. He's definitely a big inspiration to me.
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service.
We can never achieve perfect football at Bayern because the game is always changing. There are always new influences and different styles.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
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.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
I found my father through other people, through my older brothers, my high school coaches, so I had men influences along the way who helped me.
Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences.
My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.