First it was Pink Floyd, which broke me away from the nu rock crap I was listening to when I was 13 or so. Then the Beatles, which started me on the road to hippiedom.

It was then I started listening to Simon and Garfunkel. I thought they were great at first, then I listened to their song "America" and it was like something inside me clicked. Suddenly, I would get this overwhelming desire to just drop everything and travel across the country, seeing things, finding myself, all that.

And then I discovered Bob Dylan. Every new song I hear by him seems to further unlock some inner part of me. Apathy and an overbearing sense of ennui used to dominate my life, but after I started listening to Dylan I started having the desire to actually do things, and I started to care about stuff. I would go so far as to say he was the single most influential person in my life. *nods*