"My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music." - Chick Corea
source: digitalinterviews.com
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Showing posts with label Fathers. Show all posts
Joe Pass Quotes
[My father] didn't know anything about music, he didn't play an instrument; but he wanted us to become something more than a steel-worker like himself." - Joe Pass
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)
Miles Davis Quotes
"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from." - Miles Davis
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
Barack Obama Quotes
"[My father] took me to a jazz concert, and it wasn't until later in life that I realized: 'Maybe that's why I got really interested in jazz.'" - Barack Obama
source: Interview with CBS News (June 21st, 2009)
source: Interview with CBS News (June 21st, 2009)
Bobby McFerrin Quotes
"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time." - Bobby McFerrin
Madeleine Peyroux Quotes
"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by." - Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux Quotes
"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel." - Madeleine Peyroux
Herbie Mann Quotes
"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town." - Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann Quotes
"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania." - Herbie Mann
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father." - Herbie Hancock
Ornette Coleman Quotes
"I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have." -Ornette Coleman
Paul Desmond Quotes
"I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age." - Paul Desmond
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'" - Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
"We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us." - Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress." - Wynton Marsalis
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician." - Branford Marsalis
