influential factors Quotes

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

Many things influence a person's eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to the top of the list.

I believe every photographer is influenced by their sexual preference in a greater or lesser way, and it certainly has affected me.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people on Twitter are thinking along the same lines as I do on an issue.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

My natural bend is to get attracted towards things that have been an influence in my life.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

In our history, America began with a French look.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.