He made a considerable impression on the music world. His ability to seamlessly weave, if not the most disassociated of ideas then tangential concepts, with kindness, disdain, heartache… always with threads of dark humor, continues to influence songwriters.
His song "Genius" is one good example. Comparing Einstein to…

You'll have a lot of fun exploring his life. His songbook is, pretty much, his biography (the bio that he told his wife to write is fascinating as well… Warts and all).