My father loved people, children and pets. – Tony Visconti
My dads sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. – Tony Visconti
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. – Tony Visconti
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my fathers guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. – Tony Visconti
My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to Satisfaction at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friends house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friends dad stopped the record when he heard the words girlie action! – Gayle King