“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.” RealizingInfluenceGrewGrew UpWestBucks Author:Lionel Richie
“Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.” KidsChoicesParentInfluenceGrewGrew UpCollections Author:Ryan Lewis
“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!” StillsBigsMy OwnInfluenceStyleGrewGrew UpBronxMy Own StyleBangles Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.” FeelsFirstsGrowsChurchGrowing UpRecordsInfluenceListeningGrewBandGrew UpListening To Music Author:Avril Lavigne
“I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.” PowerfulInfluenceGrewMomGrew Up Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.” ThinkingWorldProblemFoundSocialBitsRealizingTeacherInfluencePositionGrewLuckyGrew UpImpactSocial Capital Author:Matt Damon
“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.” MeanEndsSchoolParentAcceptingInfluenceBrotherGrewGrew UpAdultsAcceptedEducatedMatureConcreteBrothers And SistersMiraculous Author:George Coyne
“As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.” OpportunityMoneyPowerOur LivesCuttingInfluenceGrewCorruptionCornersTemptationMore MoneyDishonestyPeddlingCutting Corners Author:Steve Forbes
“My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.” CountryInspirationMotherInfluenceGrewMomGrew UpCriticsMy MomKitchenGrandmotherMy GrandmotherMexicanPioneersCuisine Author:Aaron Sanchez
“I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.” TwoRealInfluenceGrewMomGrew UpUnderstoodRaisedMalesMy MomTwo Sisters Author:Todd Phillips
“I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.” BitsInfluenceFashionDesignGrewDadGrew UpStoresClothingsMumMum And Dad Author:Leona Lewis
“I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.” WorldActionHumanityChurchResponsibilityInfluenceEventsGrewGrew UpBoundsContactGrandmotherResurrectionMy GrandmotherBaptistsPhiladelphiaPositive Influence Author:Will Smith
“I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.” IdeasDifferentWholeStoriesThreeReadingParentInfluenceChildhoodGrewGrew UpStorytellingExposedDrs Author:Christopher Meledandri
“My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.” FeelsParentCommunityCitiesInfluenceSpecialNew YorkGrewGrew UpNew York CityBrooklynBrooklyn New York Author:Talib Kweli
“You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.” MatterGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpInfluenceGrewPeriodsGrew UpLoyaltyNeighborhood Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.” ThinkingPlaySchoolSoundClassInfluenceRocksCollegeGrewGrew UpInstrumentsGuitarPops80sPop MusicGuitar PlayingGuitar Sound Author:Christian Fennesz
“Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.” PeopleSkyInfluenceHugeGrewGrew Up Author:John Cariani
“There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.” KnowsWellsEndsTodayArtistBitsInfluenceGrewGrew UpFoundationStartingBritishFavouriteMusic Business Author:Paul Weller
“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.” WorldStuffChurchInfluenceGrewGrew UpRaisesPopsTraditionalPop MusicHymnsRaises Questions Author:Alan Green
“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
“I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me.” PeopleChildrenSongLaughingInfluenceHugeListeningGrewGrew UpSingingBillsCarolsAmazing Experiences Author:MC Lyte