“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.” FirstsCountryGoneRecordsStonesWesternFolksHip HopHipsClassicHopsRolling80sRolling StonesCabBalladsGershwinBebopReferencingCountry Western Author:Cat Power
“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.” WritingFirstsSongRecordsWrittenTvsFirst TimeUniversalAlbumsBusPromotingLiving OnWriting SongsPersonal Experiences Author:Kate Voegele
“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksStoriesTodayEnjoySidesRecordsHeardHugeElementsImpactWestSevenEightWest SideWest Side Story Author:Steve Vai
“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.” PeopleThinkingFirstsBelieveAgeArtistGrowing UpRecordsGrowingYouthBecomingSpeechResponsibleObligationAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechAssuredFirst Amendment Author:Ja Rule
“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.” FirstsLittlesAbleFeltBoysWatchesRecordsHeardTablesMy FavoriteBoxesThings To DoLittle BoysFavorites Things Author:Narada Michael Walden
“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.” FirstsHomeFoundRecordsMajorsMajorityInventionSatPioneersElectricalPhonograph Author:Dave Barry
“I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.” FirstsMeanRememberRealizingBreakRecordsComplimentGretzky Author:Sidney Crosby
“Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.” FirstsMovingSongRecordsGuitarProducersBassConstantly Moving Author:Noel Gallagher
“I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.” FirstsMadeChurchRecordsGoodbyeFarewellCourtroom Author:Patsy Cline
“I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.” TryingFirstsMatterRecordsBecomingAdultsStartingBoringWho I AmWhat MattersSnapshots Author:El-P
“I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.” FeelsWritingFirstsStillsRecords Author:Yukimi Nagano
“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.” WantFirstsEndsLastsSongOrderRecordsJourneySticksMapsListenersSequencing Author:Dave Grohl
“I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.” FirstsRecordsExampleColorRedBlueGreenAssociates Author:Kaki King
“I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.” WayYearsFirstsPlayKidsUsedRecordsFiguresLessonsMusicianRedYears AgoEarsJazzNotesMy FavoriteJazz MusicPianistJazz MusicianGarlands Author:Donald Fagen
“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.” MenTryingFirstsMadeDifferentTogetherRememberSpiritualityHouseFeltUnderstandingSidesRecordsHeardMusicianIncrediblesSupremeTransitionRemember WhenColtrane Author:Maurice White
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.” FirstsHumansCharacterResultsOpinionRecordsCurrentsPermanentNovelistsAccuratePhases Author:John Dos Passos
“In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.” FirstsChildrenLittlesWould BeSchoolParentPrinciplesRecordsBirthFlowVersionsStreamsRough TimesCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:David Gelernter
“When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.” FirstsSaidArtistOrderDealsRecordsIndustryLabelsThey SaidMusic IndustryRecord Labels Author:Missy Elliot
“I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.” IfsThinkingWorldFirstsRecordsNew WorldWorld Records Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsLooksGovernmentAsksEnergyGrowthNaturalCitiesWonderRecordsCenturyEvidenceResourcesClimatePopulationObviousDecadesPanicFlood21st CenturyThreatenedNatural ResourcesDroughtWorld PopulationConfluence Author:Thomas Friedman