I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I’m influenced by everything from an ant to a dream. – Jason Moran
You’ll find so many of the guitarists from the ’60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence. – Jimmy Page
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration. – John Tyler
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can’t stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to. – Jonathan Safran Foer
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. – Ibrahim Rugova
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. – Jackson Browne
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil. – James E. Faust
There was a writer in the ’20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn’t tell you what it was. – Jack Vance
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. – Jacques Ellul
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn’t necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page. – Jim Lee
In Britain I’m sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. – Julian Barnes
Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me – he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell. – Jason Robert Brown
Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something. – John Lewis
Fox News’s coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. – Jill Lepore
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it’s vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. – Bill Dedman
Well I think everything up to this point that I’ve been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I’m not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don’t think I follow any discipline traditionally. – Criss Angel
Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. – Joe Biden
‘A Princess of Mars’ may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. – Junot Diaz
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway’s influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. – Arthur Phillips
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. – Adam Rickitt
All the violence in videos and movies, you can’t tell me that that wouldn’t influence a disturbed person. – Alana Stewart
My grandmother. She’s someone I never met, and I would’ve loved to have met her. She’s been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It’s not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth. – Amy Tan
Jamie Foxx. He’s been very much a mentor and friend, and we’ve worked together several times. He’s just been such an influence in my career. There’s nothing that man can’t do, and that’s something I would like to reflect in my career. – Bresha Webb
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles’ influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin’ Spoonful and everybody else. – Barry McGuire
‘Rock n’ Roll Animal,’ the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me. – Al Jourgensen
