My Dad Quotes - Page 30

• My dad plays the fiddle. He stopped playing for years. He was playing when I was a baby, and then he stopped for about five years, or ten years, he says. Then all of a sudden he started playing again, and we all got interested. We started having people like Ciarán Tourish coming up to the house, and Dinny McLaughlin, who taught Ciarán, and who taught myself as well. And it just grew from that

  Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

  Baby, Dad, Play

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• My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.

  Chris Tomlin

  Country, Dad, School

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• My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.

  Sherri DuPree

  Dad, Drawing, Design

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• I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

  Robbie Merrill

  Dad, Bass, Used

  "Interview: Godsmack lyric". www.askmen.com.

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• My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Dad, Home, Long

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• My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Dad, Years, Numbers

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• I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning how to play guitar and piano. Piano is really hard though. My dad is teaching me and I just get so confused because the chords are so different, but by learning I hope to be able to be a songwriter as well.

  Lindsay Pagano

  Dad, Confused, Drama

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• When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.

  Rory Block

  Mother, Powerful, Dad

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• I come from a musical family. My dad was in a group in the 70s, The Hudson Brothers. Now he's a songwriter and producer. So, I just kind of grew up with music and it was something I always knew I wanted to do.

  Sarah Hudson

  Brother, Dad, Musical

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• I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.

  Charissa Thompson

  Football, Dad, Sunday

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I've learned that each day is definitely a gift. When my dad died, I made sure I said everything to him. I realized that once he's gone, he's gone. No matter how angry or resentful or whatever.

  John Feldmann

  Dad, Matter, Gone

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Dad, School, Holiday

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Dad, Needs

  "Backstage with Miley (Part 2)". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Art, Dad

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.

  Sean Lennon

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, School

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.

  Charlie Worsham

  Memories, Dad, Heart

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• Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

  SonReal

  Song, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].

  Daniel Johnston

  Dad, Real, Class

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• My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

  Jonny Lang

  Mom, Country, Dad

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• My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

  Kenny Loggins

  Dad, Careers, Turning 50

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• Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

  Miranda Lambert

  Strong, Dad, Writing

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• My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!

  Jason Mraz

  Girl, Dad, Book

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• My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Brother, Dad

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• I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!

  Lee Ryan

  Girlfriend, Dad, Kissing

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