Top 666 Influenced Quotes

My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my ‘Mad Men’ routine. If I’m in the series of work, it’s hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It’s what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions – Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I’d say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

I’m constantly being influenced by the soul that’s directly in front of me.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It’s the other way around now.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you’d try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment.

‘The Villain’ doesn’t really have any heroes, as such, but as someone I looked up to more than anyone else and was influenced by, it was the ‘American Dragon’ Bryan Danielson.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that’s been a constant influence on all my work.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

Horns always influenced me more than voices.

I was always influenced by language.

It wasn’t so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

There are a lot of country artists now that are heavily influenced by hip-hop. That’s not me. I was very heavily influenced by rock & roll.

I’ve been very lucky to play a plethora of different characters, and have had to experiment with a lot of styles that aren’t typically what I wear and have been influenced through that.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it’s a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it’s hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I’m also a huge folk music fan – Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways – you could argue good or bad, really – and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

Every one of us owes a debt to the people who have shaped our minds and influenced our thinking and very often reasoning. For some, it is a school teacher or then professor in college for others, it could be a family member, a character of a book or movie.

It’s certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Stravinsky influenced film music in general – those stabbing chords and rhythms from ‘The Rite of Spring.’

I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. However, most of my writing is influenced by mental health. I’m incredibly passionate about shedding light on the stigmas associated with mental illnesses.

I’m very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we’ve got so many cultures, and the place names – the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

I’ve gotten lots of great advice from lots of people that I admire, but the person who influenced me more than anyone in my life was my grandmother.

I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.

Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That’s normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I’ve played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.

‘Jim Thorpe – All American’ influenced me as a young kid.

I’m very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I’m in the circus.

Technology influenced me in that it gave me an opportunity to have a voice as a woman. I think it’s because the barriers to entry tend to be a bit lower.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

I’m a writer who likes to be influenced.

My early paintings weren’t that good – I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man’s inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

I think ‘Twilight’ was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it – well, the people who became stars out of it – their lives were completely changed.

I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to ‘Paradise City’ by Guns ‘N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I’ll never forget that.

I don’t listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don’t want to be influenced.

Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party… and too often failed to speak out.

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

I think every culture – you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about ‘Shane.’ There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.

I don’t think I’m really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

I was very strongly influenced by women’s magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

Fundamentally, I’m profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn’t say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries, it was generally the other way around.

I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It’s worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.