“There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.”
Bruce Springsteen Talking
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As quoted in Nkrumah, Gamal (1–7 November 2001)
Al-Ahram Weekly interview (2001)
“Yet in my lineaments they trace
Some features of my father's face.”
Parisina, Stanza 13, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.”
in his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400064090.
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
Attributed by WKCR jazz host Phil Schaap, after a guest commented on how Monk played a lot of "wrong" notes. (March 1976)
Source: Evan Spring, Phil Schaap Interview https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/phil-schaap-interview, WKCR, 5 October, 1992
Attributed in Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
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