#influences

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. ↗

— Steven Adler

#bands #different #five #guns #guys

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

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Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

Always my collections are made of different influences. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues