Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Jacques Copeau and Joan Littlewood have all been consciously influenced by Noh.

If he felt at all consciously influenced by any predecessors, it was perhaps by such old Dutch Masters as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, whose solid constructivism certainly contributed to his own highly developed grasp of form.

He grew up listening to the music of the Beatles - for most of his teenage years the only album he owned was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - though he says his music is not consciously influenced by them.

East Bay Ray claims that he has never been consciously influenced by surf music, and attributes the recognizable elements of surf in the Kennedys music to "having grown up in California," although it could certainly be the influence of Klaus Flouride or Jello Biafra.

Except for Mr. Kerrigan's vessels - his work is consciously influenced by his travels in the Southwest - the objects on view do not reflect a particular regional flavor.

George Lucas recounts that he was consciously influenced by Joseph Campbell's theories as he made the Star Wars movies.

Thus, life emerged when the universe was extremely young, to within Planck Time of the Big Bang, and there were intelligent civilizations that witnessed, and indeed consciously influenced, major events in the early universe such as inflationary expansion, symmetry breaking, and various phase changes.

Belfagor tries to avoid being consciously influenced by other bands.

The speech rhythms of Welsh poetry permeate his instrumental music, its melodic inflections often consciously influenced by the hwyl of the Welsh preachers that he heard in his youth.