“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.” LittlesPlayHomeAgeTogetherYoungSongRecordsBrotherLessonsDecidedPianoYoung AgeLittle BrotherPiano LessonMy Little Brother Author:Josephine de La Baume
“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.” ThinkingKnowsTwoHomeLastsSleepFamilyBrotherLessonsMy FamilyEmptyMy BrotherBottlesStomachPillsCouchesLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyParamedicsSleeping PillsEmpty Bottles Author:Emo Philips
“There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.” YearsLongNightParentSawsBrotherLessonsBandLong TimeFoundationMy BrotherEtcSaturdayLensesGigsSaturday NightSeanSan DiegoBluegrassInstrumentation Author:Sara Watkins
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.” ChildrenDifferentMotherParentEnjoyStudyBrotherTypeLessonsSixMy BrotherConcertsDifferent Types Of MusicMusic Lessons Author:Wynton Marsalis