I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened…

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just…

— Jon Gordon

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our…

— Dan Smith

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

— Rick Derringer

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

— Bonnie Raitt

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

— Ruben Blades

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as…

— Alanis Morissette

Were so far away they had no idea of the impact we were making. They saw the music as local music that would never…

— Paul Wall

My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry Manilow, Fleetwood…

— Ivan Moody

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

— Gypsy Rose Lee

“Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only leaned closer, his hands on…

— Margaret McMullan

“I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose River. My…

— Joseph Boyden

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

— Gypsy Rose Lee

My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.

— Susan Shreve

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who…

— Agnes Smedley

We had Bob's [Gordon] records, and he's on Clifford Brown's first record as a leader. I believe it was Clifford Brown's first record as…

— Jon Gordon