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As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.
I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.
My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.
I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren't careful.
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
More than influences, my music is based on instincts. I make music to match the script and the world of the film.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.
Both my parents have been big influences on me wanting to do music. My mum's always been, 'Just do it. Just sing.'
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they're independent voices in the music industry.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
Market type influences everything a company does. Strategy and tactics for one market type seldom work for another.
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
Everyone's personal style evolves based on upbringing, exposure, influences, personality, etc. Style is subjective.
It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.
I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'
Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.
My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those were my main influences.
I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.