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"Daughters" is the third single from Heavier Things, the 2003 studio album from blues rock singer-songwriter John Mayer. The critically acclaimed song won numerous awards, including the 2005 Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards. It has sold 1,007,000 copies in the US as of May 2013. Content Lyrically, "Daughters" is an admonition to fathers (and to a lesser extent, mothers) to nurture their daughters in their childhood, because the relationship will affect their future relationships with men as adults. He uses his own troubled lover to illustrate his belief. Mayer has at various times told different, and sometimes conflicting, stories as to the inspiration for the song, ranging from MTV's "Real World" (in a Sirius Morning Mash Up Show interview in May 2007) to an unnamed ex-girlfriend. In 2010, on VH1's "Storytellers", Mayer stated that he wrote the song about an ex-girlfriend who had trust issues because of her absent father, which led to the decline and eventual split of their relationship.

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Notable quotes

“Shield children from everything false; guard them against worthless music; protect them from obscenity; protect them from false competitions; protect them from affirmation of selfhood. The more so, since it is necessary to inculcate a love for incessant learning. The muscles must not gain the upper hand over mind and heart.”
— Agni Yoga, New Era Community (1926), sect. 116. Reported in Harold Balyoz, Three Remarkable Women (1986), p. 97
“Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.”
— Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
— Carl Jung, The Integration of the Personality (1939)
“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”
— Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "Introductory Note", p. 5
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973), Emotions
“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
— Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.

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Overview

"Daughters" is the third single from Heavier Things, the 2003 studio album from blues rock singer-songwriter John Mayer. The critically acclaimed song won numerous awards, including the 2005 Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards. It has sold 1,007,000 copies in the US as of May 2013. Content Lyrically, "Daughters" is an admonition to fathers (and to a lesser extent, mothers) to nurture their daughters in their childhood, because the relationship will affect their future relationships with men as adults. He uses his own troubled lover to illustrate his belief. Mayer has at various times told different, and sometimes conflicting, stories as to the inspiration for the song, ranging from MTV's "Real World" (in a Sirius Morning Mash Up Show interview in May 2007) to an unnamed ex-girlfriend. In 2010, on VH1's "Storytellers", Mayer stated that he wrote the song about an ex-girlfriend who had trust issues because of her absent father, which led to the decline and eventual split of their relationship.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Shield children from everything false; guard them against worthless music; protect them from obscenity; protect them from false competitions; protect them from affirmation of selfhood. The more so, since it is necessary to inculcate a love for incessant learning. The muscles must not gain the upper hand over mind and heart.”
— Agni Yoga, New Era Community (1926), sect. 116. Reported in Harold Balyoz, Three Remarkable Women (1986), p. 97
“Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.”
— Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
— Carl Jung, The Integration of the Personality (1939)
“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”
— Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "Introductory Note", p. 5
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973), Emotions
“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
— Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Daughters: 2024 film directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton · episode of NCIS (S16 E24) · album by Daughters · extended play by Daughters

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"Daughters" is the third single from Heavier Things, the 2003 studio album from blues rock singer-songwriter John Mayer. The critically acclaimed song won numerous awards, including the 2005 Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 47th Grammy Awards. It has sold 1,007,000 copies in the US as of May 2013.