Jon Gordon Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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 a little, I think it was too painful for her.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

• We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Records, Frank

• I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Records, Bob

• When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Husband, Father

• We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Player, Eight

• My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Singers, Notes

• [My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Children, Thinking

• [My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Kings, Years

• I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Father, Understanding

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