In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the broader public.
Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more.
Long experience, in the United States and in other advanced economies, has demonstrated that monetary policy is most successful when decisions are rendered independent of influence by elected officials.
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy's 'Border Trilogy' has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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.
Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence on myself and many, many communities around Australia.
Russia engages in a malign influence campaign all over the world. I would expect that they would try to undermine democracy here just that they - as they have in other places.
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
