Quotes of: Major-influence Keyword

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

Hal Sparks

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Julius Erving

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

Willa Ford

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

Jon Secada

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Howard Barker

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thin...

Kid Rock

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever t...

Herbie Hancock

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Daryl Hall

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago

I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority.

Hate is Such a Strong Word

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

Stefon Harris

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

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.

Tiger Woods

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Lukas Foss

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Zac Posen

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.

Jim McGovern

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Os Guinness

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

Hu Jintao

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

Ivan Krastev

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Natalie Portman