Hoagy Carmichael Quotes

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

I grew up with reggae music.

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.

I never left doo wop.

I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.

I've watched 'General Hospital' for 35 years. I grew up with it. It holds such a place in my heart.

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

For a little kid like me, growing up in Carle Place, you put on John Lee Hooker late at night, and it's a different reality. I try to feel that music from the inside out because I was really attracted to it.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.