#influence

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years. ↗

— Chester Brown

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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

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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. ↗

— Edward Burns

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I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. ↗

— David Byrne

#devote #friends #fun #hanging #home

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights. ↗

— Uwe Boll

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