Here's Who Said It and where
1. "They're my babies"
Bill in People 1990
2. "I am NOT a baby!"
Susan on A Family Thing November 11, 1968
3. “Man, I am the kid brother of the baby boom generation.”
Barry in an interview by Jim Conway 1999
4. "We're a classic rags to riches to rags story. We made millions of dollars almost overnight, then lost it nearly as quickly. But we've got a lot of music left in us."
Paul in National Enquirer interview September 28, 1999
5. "Well the point is we didn’t know what it was, but we knew we were doing it."
Bill on CKUA December 12, 2004
6. "Hey let's not waste this valuable air time. I'll give you the key to my hotel room later"
John on Howard Stern radio 1989
7. "She was the 8th kid."
Richard speaking about Barbara on Inside Edition
8. "OK, (singing) Ahh gog gog gog gog Ah gog gog gog gog"
Bob on The Dating Game March 15, 1969
9. "Yeah, I grew up singing. It helped me to grow up – to sing. Yeah, I’ve been singing since I was knee-high to a grasshopper."
Susan on KUT March 14, 2005
10. "Nancy Hussey, you used to give me free Pixy Sticks and bubblegum. Man, I love you forever."
John on Lost 45's July 1, 1990
11. "I remember being on that stage and wanting to stand where John Lennon stood, to see what he saw."
Bob talking of his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show
12. "My 30-year-old son Nathan saw it in Los Angeles. He called and said, 'Dad! It's you! It's you!' It was so cool."
Richard in newspaper article about performing at The Red Sox game.
13. "It's really hard working together and living together and speaking amongst one another."
John on Joan Rivers March 24, 1991
14. Speaking of Bud, this Cowsill said Bud was "in charge of production and reproduction"
Paul on Mike Douglas September 15, 1969
15. "To start with they took a perfectly unbothered talented family, who was into folk and rock and roll. They put them in various undersized ridiculous suits, which was OK cuz it was the 60's."
Barry - Susan read this statement by Barry on a Howard Stern radio show
16. "I'd love you to put your hands around my neck."
John speaking to Howard Stern 1992
17. "He's rather cranky when he's had a bad drive anywhere so it's probably for the best (a certain Cowsill) isn't at this interview.
Susan talking about John WKMQ - Rock and Roll USA June 1990
18. "Oh, it's a long story. They just all had this in them and it had to come out."
Barbara on Ed Sullivan October 29, 1967
19. "I am the bad guy who calls rehearsals, makes Barry practice his bass, makes John drum till he's blue in the face, and tells Mom that this is more important than washing dishes."
Bill in Outasite Magazine April 1968
20. "Ever since I hopped my first train, I've never been the same."
Barry describing this As Is song Train
21. "... this might be a fun place to perform for the summer."
Bob on guitarsam.com talking about his first gig at Pickwicks. A job that lasted about 20 (??) years.
22. "Oh my god. You guys are like Spinal Tap."
John speaking of two of siblings calling in a 1990 Rock and Roll USA radio interview
23. "Barry has a terrific sense of humor and is full of adventure. He learned to scuba dive in our kitchen sink! The sink is quite large, so he put on his snorkel and John held his head under water until he learned how to breath properly."
Barbara in a 16 SPEC magazine article in 1968
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