"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."

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"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."

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"My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire."

Deana Carter, American Musician

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"My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not."

Dorothy Fields, American Musician

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"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."

Jensen Ackles, American Actor

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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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"I am blessed to have Mom and Dad."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

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"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."

Jessica Simpson, American Musician

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"Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

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"I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey."

Parker Stevenson, American Actor

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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."

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"My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk."

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"I've got holes in my guitar."

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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

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"There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around."

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"When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards."

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