“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.” ShouldYearsFirstsMomentsBigsHeardInfluenceBecomingBandMusicianWeightNotesProfoundMy FavoriteRadioEightStartersFavorite Bands Author:Colin Linden
“Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.” WellsDifferentEnoughBigsFormSongCoursesLeftPlansWrittenInfluenceBandDecidedBillsPeterHad EnoughBluegrass Author:David Grisman
“I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for sure but I also love delicate sounds, they both connect I think. Discharge back in 1980 was a big explosion in sound for me to hear the anger and the energy, still an influence on me. Miles Davis has been an influence, as much as John Coltrane, Brian Eno, John Hassel. So much around me has influenced me: my everyday life, everything around me, the family, etc.... It has an impact.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsI CanBigsPassionEnergySoundDarkFireInfluenceBeatsAngryImpactEverydayTrackMilesEtcDelicateEveryday LifeExplosionsMusic LoveBrianDischargeI Love MusicColtrane Author:Mick Harris
“That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.” PeopleCharacterBigsIndividualInfluenceStyleSticksCashJuneCarterIndividual Style Author:Shelby Lynne
“I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindRealBigsFightingInfluenceFilmmakerOpera Author:Zack Snyder
“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.” ThinkingArtBigsYoungNovelGenerationsInfluenceTraditionMartial ArtsOur Generation Author:Wong Kar-wai
“For me personally, Blink-182 has been a big influence. Just seeing them way back in the day play little shows and start from a garage band to where they are now, makes me believe anything is possible if you truly want it and commit your life to it.” IfsWayWantBelieveLittlesHas BeensPlayShowsBigsSeeingInfluenceBandCommitGarageBlinkAnything Is PossibleBack In The DayBlink 182 Author:Beau Bokan
“Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsBigsWould BeChristianSongJesusBlackInfluenceBandYeahSatanWhat IfSci FiMetalsFactoriesMetal BandBlack Metal Author:Dino Cazares
“When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under the Influence [1974]. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.” FirstsRealEnoughBigsAbleYoungSawsInfluenceCollegeMomConnectionsMy MomObsessedPrintPhasesSheetsGet RealMockingbirdProjectorsKill A Mockingbird Author:Winona Ryder
“I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.” WorldBigsTodayInfluenceHavensWho I AmBluegrass Author:Sara Watkins
“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayLooksIdeasWholeBigsSchoolRoomsPowerfulTalkingInfluenceStudentsHigh SchoolBusySpreadBunchGirlfriendReach OutLecturesCampusDisrespectfulAuditoriumsHigh School Students Author:Seth Godin
“Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.” DifferentBigsCareersNovelSkyInfluenceSeriesWesternParadiseBrownFarmersEpicDifferent TimesPhilipGetting Started Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.” ThinkingKindBigsAgeInfluencePeriodsRadicalRelatedPeppersSergeantsImpressionable Author:Tod Machover
“Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.” KnowsGivingWarSoulBigsSeemsStarsInfluenceGiving UpYour SoulImmortalityFaust Author:Cass Sunstein
“Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.” FirstsBigsSawsInfluenceFineGrids Author:Robert Barry
“This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.” DoeBigsFilmIssuesInfluenceLife And DeathEarthquakes Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.” DoeBigsWould BeFilmInfluenceAdvantageCamerasBelieverVideoDigitalDigital Cameras Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.” PeopleHas BeensImportantHelpingBigsParentTeacherInfluencePositive Influence Author:Samuel Alito
“I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him enabled me to meet Nas, Busta, Q-Tip and all these people I looked up to at the time. Even Large himself. He was a good friend but at the same time he was definitely someone I looked up to.” PeopleLooksBigsAbleGrowsGrowing UpInfluenceGrewGrew UpProfessorsGood Friend Author:Mic Geronimo
“Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.” PeopleMenKindBigsGuyEasyCareersCreativeInfluenceAngelCleanSurpriseProducersPeterCookiesPenniesMotorcycleRogerRidersLaunchingCuttersNicholsonPinchingCookie CuttersBig SurprisesEasy Rider Author:Alex Stapleton
“China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.” BigsDifficultInfluenceProudEmbraceChinaCategories Author:Madeleine Albright
“I have the unique liberty as part of the Green Party that operates on the same terms. We have the ability to actually speak for everyday Americans. We are not controlled by major donors, by the influence of big banks, by fossil fuel giants, by war profiteers or insurance companies.” WarBigsSpeakTermAbilityPartyCompanyLibertyInfluenceMajorsUniqueGreenEverydayGiantsFuelControlledFossilsFossil FuelDonorsInsurance CompaniesGreen Party Author:Jill Stein
“Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.” WayDoeHas BeensBigsUsedWatchesLaughingInfluenceTalentUniqueMy FavoriteLiliesRerunsUnique Talents Author:Baron Vaughn
“At least on the domestic side of things that you`re seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?” BigsPoliticalFightingSidesSeeingInfluenceMike Author:Chuck Todd
“C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.” BigsSpiritualInfluenceConnectionsLongingRealmsSpiritual Connection Author:Francis Collins