Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.
The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.
My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
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.
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.
