“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.” WorldArtMotherFatherListeningSingingOur FamilySpokesListening To Music Author:Kiki Smith
“Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.” ThinkingKnowsMeanMotherTurnsFatherTvsListeningSuspectsZeroNo RespectNo One ListeningLess Than Zero Author:Elvis Costello
“As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.” SchoolFatherResultsStudyListeningTrainingDecidedFarmsInstitutePropheticCalgary Author:Preston Manning
“Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.” MenDoneFatherToo MuchListeningHusbandDamnMy HusbandListeners Author:Adela Rogers St. Johns
“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.” ThinkingKnowsYearsMeanTogetherMotherFatherSexParentEnjoySawsListeningDaughterNotesRadioAfternoonHintsUpstairsHigh Notes Author:Joy Behar
“One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.” GuyFatherMemoriesWhiteRoomsListeningMovedRadioStrongestSkinnyLiving RoomDetroitFunkMotownBongos Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.” MenMomentsFatherHugeListeningImpactMoments In Time Author:Kevin Costner
“I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.” ChildrenTogetherAmericaMotherFatherWatchesMiddleListeningSummerRaisesSouthWinterCyclesVacationAprilNestsJust ListenMother And FatherSouth AmericaMonogamous RelationshipOspreys Author:Alan Lightman
“The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.” KnowsWorldFatherPlansListeningWalkingEssentialsGuidelinesWalking With GodListening To God Author:Charles Stanley
“I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.” YearsStillsRememberFatherWonderfulSeeingNew YorkListeningPerformancesProductionsChoirPageantUpstate New York Author:Renee Fleming
“When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.” MenChildrenStoriesTogetherFatherListening Author:Rumi
“I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.” KnowsLittlesRememberFatherBitsDyingListeningLittle BitRemember WhenColtrane Author:Wayne Coyne
“My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.” SoulFatherFansRocksListeningGrewGrew UpJazzMassiveMusic Fans Author:Kieran Hebden
“I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to those stories and finding her so strong, poised. Anybody who came close to her was made to feel blessed. And at the same time, it didn't matter how strong a person was, in front of her, their head would go down. She carried through her life raising everybody. That is my model.” FeelsPersonsMadeMatterStoriesKidsFatherStrongDifficultFrontsListeningFindingsModelsBlessedRaisedGrandmotherMy GrandmotherDifficult Times Author:Rajashree Choudhury
“Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.” PeopleThinkingWellsDoeWould BeFatherAudienceEffectsStyleListeningMinistryPreachingOld FashionedSermonsChanting Author:David C. Driskell
“I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"” SongFatherListening Author:Alexandra Richards
“The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.” PeopleChildrenDreamFatherParentInterestingHellChildhoodListeningCookingPassionateObsessionReally Interesting Author:Diana Abu-Jaber
“Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.” WorldWayCultureFatherBitsWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtListeningHeavyBritishMetalsSuburbsWaynePassed AwayTorontoHeavy MetalAustinBritish Culture Author:Mike Myers