#influences

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

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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

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Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. ↗

— Origen

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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform. ↗

— Hal Price

#big #big business #business #costs #deal

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

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I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#behave #creation #empathy #how #influences

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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