#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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There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

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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

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I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. ↗

— Deana Carter

#big #big fan #could #draw #fan

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

— Lukas Foss

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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. ↗

— John Legend

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That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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The future influences the present just as much as the past. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

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