Influence
Gerard Way, the lead singer of the band My Chemical Romance and author of the comic book series The Umbrella Academy, described his exposure to Columbia's work as "a turning point" in his aesthetic development. Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio has also cited Columbia as an inspiration.
In a 2009 interview with Juxtapoz magazine, professional illustrator Aaron Horkey asserted that "countless successful artists continue to pillage back catalog, propping up their half-baked careers on the well-worn spines of second hand copies of Biologic Show."
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)