Influences
Ivy cite The Go-Betweens, Burt Bacharach, Jobim, Orange Juice, The Smiths, Velvet Underground & Nico, The Beatles, and Françoise Hardy as their influences, as well as other artists covered on Guestroom.
Dominique Durand's vocal technique and Parisian pronunciation is often compared in reviews with another French pop band singer Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab.
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Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.”
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
“Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at what is inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)