The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.
I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem Irish. None of the kids in my family, my siblings, speak with an Irish accent... we've never lived there full-time; we weren't born there. We just go there once or twice a year. It's weird. Our parents sound Irish, but we don't.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.
I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in our own lives - in the lives of our parents and our grandparents. We don't need reminders.
People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.
My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.
I could never repay my parents for always pushing me and believing in me as much as they did.
My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.
I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
