I guess my biggest
I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music. Ella Henderson
My Grandfather
When I think of
When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family. Edward Norton
After my grandfather died
After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather’s death and I thought my grandfather had … Read more
Then I found another
Then I found another one, grandpa’s poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn’t my grandfather’s poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong. Edward Hirsch
In high school I
In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, \”That’s so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather’s poem.\” Edward Hirsch
My mother was a
My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn’t like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing. Ed Droste
My grandfather is Portuguese.
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father’s side. Fred D’Aguiar
My grandfather used to
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may … Read more
My grandfather was smart
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. Frank Ocean
If I\’d been born
If I’d been born in my grandfather’s time, I’d have made my grandfather’s mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don’t want to make my grandfather’s mistakes today. Frank Herbert