“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.” ThinkingArtistStuffWonderInfluenceMusicalMusical Influence Author:Jonny Lang
“I feel like karma is something that's real. I try and be the best possible person I can be, but not only that I try to help as many people as possible and influence others in a positive manner. And that's all stuff brought on by MMA because I want to be successful so want to be the best possible person.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingPersonsI CanRealHelpingStuffSuccessfulInfluenceKarmaBeing The BestBeing SuccessfulMma Author:Danny Castillo
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.” ThinkingWritingEasyStuffBrainQualityCompanyGrowingTreeInfluenceExampleFindingsSellsMarketingCellsDepartmentExceptionTrendsPublishingEmphasisInkBrain CellsIllustrating Author:Jabari Asim
“I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And... it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.” KnowsFirstsArtWholeNextStuffInfluenceMovementTvsPopsEastDrawingNewspapersCopiesVillageSuperheroPop ArtEast Village Author:Trina Robbins
“When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.” KnowsDoeMatterPlaySongStuffPayRecordsInfluenceDrawsDuesBarsGreat ThingsTanks Author:Eric Church
“Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.” JobsYoungStuffInfluenceEffectsYoung Writers Author:George Saunders
“My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.” TwoStuffInfluenceRocksDramaticSongwritingMercuryGlamGlam Rock Author:Brandi Carlile
“Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.” BigsStuffInfluenceBlindVulnerableCombinationSlipsDelicateHarshVocalJohnsonStuff I Like Author:Benjamin Booker
“I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.” CareKidsStuffInfluenceModernMastersPostsRealismAllegiance Author:Robert Stone
“Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.” TryingStuffInfluence Author:S. E. Hinton
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.” KnowsMindHumansArtImportantMightBeautifulSpiritDesireThreeStuffTeacherInfluenceTeachingDangerousWideMediumsBurningHorizonHuman MindGreat TeacherSprungBurning Desire Author:John Steinbeck
“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.” FirstsStuffParentRecordsInfluenceCollectionsPurpleZeppelinsDeep Purple Author:Daniel Johns
“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
“My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.” YearsFirstsAgeStuffInfluenceBrotherYogaGratefulCaliforniaEncountersTexasBe GratefulSurfingEighteenThirteenHoustonOlder BrotherNew StuffPositive InfluenceThirteen Year Olds Author:David F. Swensen
“We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.” HappensPoliticalStuffWonderfulInfluenceOppositesThings HappenHuntersBeatnikHunter's Thompson Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.” WellsMeanLongHas BeensRealStatesActorsStuffInfluenceLong TimeUnderstoodConcernThreatAdversariesHacksCyber Author:Susan Rice