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• I’m a big fan of ’70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

  Deana Carter

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• Nat King Cole was a really big influence.

  Bryan White

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• I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• I don’t like to think about being an influence. It’s embarrassing.

  Bruce Nauman

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• A guy called Arthur Brown… was a big influence of mine… and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

  Bruce Dickinson

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• Mantovani was a great influence on me.

  Brian Harold May

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• They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you’re an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like – it influences how you’re going to end up.

  Brett Ratner

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• I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

  Brad Dourif

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• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

  Boz Scaggs

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

  Hal Sparks

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• Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

  Berkeley Breathed

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• That’s the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

  Pat Sajak

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• It’s pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

  Ben Shahn

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• I’ve been asked a great deal about the influence I’ve had with my work and it’s impossible to say, you know.

  Ben Shahn

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• My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

  Gilbert Hernandez

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• No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

  Gilbert Gottfried

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• Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

  Quentin Tarantino

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• I don’t have any influences, any heroes, it’s just me.

  GG Allin

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• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles’ influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin’ Spoonful and everybody else.

  Barry McGuire

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• Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

  Gertrude Stein

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