“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.” TryingYearsStillsI CanHappensGoalDealsRecordsLuckyMy FriendsSupposed To BeWhatever HappensGreat Faith Author:Jane Siberry
“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.” PeopleThinkingTwoHardBitsPracticeRecordsMeditationPositive ThinkingHealthBuddhismMy FriendsAidsLongevityAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.” IfsKindI CanCareProcessRecordsFineMy FriendsLearning Process Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."” SaidHumorFunnyRecordsMy FriendsHeyTapeBlankBackwardsWireCassettes Author:Steven Wright
“There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.” KnowsLongMadeRealDealsRecordsSeeingLong TimeMy FriendsReal LifeMainstream Author:Danny Brown
“At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.” AgeJoyRecordsTenKissingSittingMy FriendsDrinkingStealingEldersSiblingGraveyardCider Author:Beth Orton
“I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.” ThinkingBookFunRecordsConceptsMy FriendsSellsStores Author:Tavi Gevinson
“The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. At the age of just 27, he is already their record goalscorer in competitive, league, as well as continental games. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.” WorldWellsStillsHomeKidsAgeMotivationNextGamesPracticeRecordsYouthMy FriendsProgramLeagueCall MeSensationsNext DayBarcelonaContinental Author:Thierry Henry
“I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.” WritingYearsHas BeensTwoDreamSongParentMy OwnRecordsCoupleSingingMy FriendsRadioAlbumsLocalsTwo YearsStationsFifteenI Had A DreamRadio StationsTwo Year Olds Author:Lene Marlin
“That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first and that's my favorite instrument to play. Once I get the drums done, everything else comes real quick. Also, we track in my friends' garage, which is really small ... there's not really room to record live with a band.” WayWritingFirstsRealDonePlayHomeRoomsRecordsBandMy FriendsInstrumentsMy FavoriteTrackDrummerGarage Author:Pete Yorn
“I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.” LooksKidsRecordsStupidMy Friends Author:Wilson Pickett
“Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.” MenYearsCountryDoneAmericaYoungInterestCan DoLinesPowerfulPartyRecordsGroupsWillingMy FriendsToughDemocraticSignificantGreat ThingsOur CountryYoung ManSubstitutesSenateGiftedSenatorsDemocratic PartyTough TimesEloquenceEloquentInterest Groups Author:Joe Lieberman
“I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.” LeftWonderRecordsDyingCoupleBenefitsMy FriendsAidsKnights Author:Elton John
“[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.” PeoplePersonsStoriesReadingTalkingRecordsHeardMy FriendsRedDecidedCourtMeetingsStatementsFlagsProsecutorPoppingRed Flags Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.” RecordsBandMy FriendsStoresBarsRecord Stores Author:Sarah Harmer
“I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.” PeopleUseHateRecordsMy FriendsI HateHotRapper Author:Donnis
“I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"” ShouldFirstsSaidWould BeRecordsPiecesDogMy FriendsStudiosStuckTomsMinorsPrelude Author:Petra Haden
“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.” PeopleThinkingSaidHelpingRunningLastsRecordsNew YorkMy FriendsInvestmentSouthFinalsCome UpFinanceMinistersRegimesSouth AfricaNailsSeniorPropositionsSanctionsApartheidCoffinsTreasuryVancouverCommercial Banks Author:Bob Hawke
“My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.” RecordsAmbitionLateMy FriendsProducersMy Ambition Author:Jon Landau
“I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.” WishVoiceRecordsTerribleMy FriendsVery GoodSingers Author:Moby
“I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.” RecordsMy FriendsLabelsThis DayMurphyRecord Labels Author:Bruce Springsteen
“In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.” FirstsBigsBlackRecordsBandMy FriendsMovedChicagoTapeDemos Author:Steve Albini