"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

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"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

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"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."

Dakota Fanning, American Actress

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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."

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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

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"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."

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"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."

Paul Lynde, American Comedian

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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

Paul Reiser, American Comedian

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"I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't."

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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."

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"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."

Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist

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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

Living

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

Music

"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

Want

"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."

Work

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

Work

"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."

People

"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

Music

"But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him."

Life

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

Time

"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."

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