Quotes About Connection

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

I have a Father's Day every day

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

George Burns was the father I never had

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

right now,I am my father