Words matter. These are the best Biggest Influence Quotes from famous people such as John Walters, Eric Whitacre, Sid Gillman, John Madden, Tom Shadyac, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I’ve been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound – that pure, clean, pristine sound – and I think it’s probably been the biggest influence on my sound.
I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
Someone asked me the other day, ‘What’s the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?’ And they started naming filmmakers. I went ‘Naw, it’s Jesus actually.’
I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.
Des Bulpin discovered me and, along with my dad, would be the biggest influence on my career. I remember him telling me when I was 15 that Jermain Defoe and I would play together for England when we were older, and he hasn’t been too far wrong.
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at ‘The New Yorker,’ wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, ‘Hiroshima.’ Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.
Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.
In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men’s fashion and read all of the magazines.
‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
Part of me still feels like I’ve never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.
When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I’m a big fan.
I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he’ll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.
The biggest influence? I’ve had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
Bud Powell’s probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father’s record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they’re all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.
It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she’d talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She was a combination of Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch, Betty White, and Bea Arthur rolled into one.
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
‘Jaws’ was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on ‘Frozen.’
Bowie’s obviously my biggest influence.
When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her a lot. She was my pillar. She was the biggest influence on me.
My soundtrack to life would have to be ‘TT.’ It has gained a lot of love since we debuted it in Japan. I would say overall that it’s the song that had the biggest influence on Twice.
Mum has been the biggest influence on me.
My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.
Biggest influence is my parents. It’s funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My dad was not ready to let me play yet. She definitely was the one who allowed me to do it. Obviously my dad taught me to throw and be a quarterback.
My biggest influence is my city. There’s so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.
My biggest influence is my big brother.
We’re not Seattle East. We’re our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.
My biggest influence is Chris Rock. His physicality is like a caged tiger – pacing the stage – how he walks back and forth.
Coach Spurrier, without question, has been the biggest influence to me, next to my father.
In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.
My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I’m extremely grateful to him for that.
Dylan’s relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime – they opened up country music.
My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way.
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I’m thankful for her. All I know is that when I’m a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.
