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I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike. ↗

— Randy Travis

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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record. ↗

— Scott Weiland

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I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

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Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time. ↗

— Roy Wood

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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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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. ↗

— Zac Hanson

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Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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