“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
“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.” PeopleNeedsOrderRecordsPlayerStreetsWalkingTheaterTelephonesMovie TheaterRecord Players Author:Will Oldham
“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryRecordsPlayerJazzStudiosBobBlondeNashvilleJazz Records Author:Elvis Costello
“In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.” IfsWellsLooksKindPersonsArtDoneBeautifulSpiritSoundVisionRecordsPlayerPaintingEarsGuitarDrawingSingersArtisticRisingSongwritersRepresentationTestamentHookSculptureGuitar PlayerDaveArtistic VisionCobain Author:Krist Novoselic
“It's just fun to go out and compete. It doesn't matter what your record is or what the other team's record is. You're playing in an NFL game, and you are out there competing with great players.” MatterGamesFunRecordsPlayerTeamNflCompetingNfl Games Author:Jamie Martin
“My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsRealHardCareKidsTurnsMusicRecordsPlayerMinesInvolvedMusic IsTreatsGuitarProductionsCombinationBeing RealGuitar PlayerPissed OffKentGood RecordsBackwoods Author:Dolly Parton
“We dance for the pure joy of it. In the kitchen to the record player. Because we've got it in us. All over ... it's not just in the legs. It comes from inside and runs all through you. In waves. From down below to up above. All the way to the scalp.” WayRunningJoyRecordsPlayerPureWaveLegsKitchenOver ItPure JoyRecord Players Author:Gunter Grass
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.” YearsYoungNightStudyRecordsSawsPlayerListeningSingingLoudRelaxDozenHornsOne NightMicrophonesLester Young Author:Marvin Gaye
“We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.” WantEndsLostCitiesRecordsPlayerWeekMeetingsNoiseChiefsGet BetterNflThe End Of The DayIgnoredDoubtedSuper BowlKansasBetter DaysKansas City Author:Russell Wilson
“I don't look at records, that's not why I'm playing the game. Goals, of course. Every player in my position wants to score goals. But most of all, trophies. My target is always to win trophies for Barcelona, and that will always be my motivation, to win things. Nothing feels better than doing that as a team.” WantFeelsLooksMotivationCoursesGamesWinningGoalRecordsPlayerTeamPositionScoreTargetFeel BetterTrophiesBarcelonaMotivation To Win Author:Lionel Messi
“When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.” MadePlayWantedRecordsPlayerHeardSweetKingsBassSixteenBass PlayersBb King Author:Donald Dunn
“I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.” HomeRecordsPlayerHeardAmberVinylRecord PlayersOld Records Author:Amber Heard
“Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radio/record player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I'd never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.” BigsHouseParentRecordsPlayerHeardRocksBrotherBandRedBillsMovedRadioHearingLabelsHotelRock N RollConventionalStanleyJukeboxRecord Players Author:Bob Dylan
“I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.” WayYearsPlayUsedMotherNightOrderNextSleepRecordsPlayerBedLoudOne NightHeadphonesRecord Players Author:Lauryn Hill
“I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.” IfsImportantEasySuccessfulRecordsPlayerSafeImportant ThingsGrooveRecord Players Author:Kevin Spacey
“Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.” YearsTwoProblemBodyFallGamesRecordsPlayerBrokenArmsYour BodyShouldersTwo YearsFalling ApartBlueprintsSteroid Author:Charlie Sheen
“I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.” StuffRecordsPlayerPagesThese DaysListening To MusicRecord Players Author:Panda Bear
“A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!” RecordsPlayerMusicianRadioHearingExcellent Author:Gerry Mulligan
“Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.” KnowsStoriesGuyRecordsImaginePlayerFellowsKillingGuitarSingersLovelyTunesWithout YouGuitar PlayerHamVery SadSad Story Author:George Harrison
“It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.” WellsStillsTwoPlayWinningDifficultSidesClassCasesRecordsPlayerTeamHavensFiguresHigherRateIncrediblesClubsAll TimeTitlesLatterSpainBest PlayersBarcelonaArgentinaMessiPortugalMaradonaZidaneIniesta Author:Boris Becker
“I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.” WayWantPlayTogetherGuyLanguageSoundRecordsPlayerMusicianStudiosWorking TogetherGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Jason Aldean
“Rahul is always been in the shadow of Sachin. If you take his record it's as good as Sachin's but you cannot compare both as they are different kind of players. Rahul is a complete cricketer.” IfsKindDifferentRecordsPlayerShadowCompareDifferent KindsCricketers Author:Muttiah Muralitharan
“That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I'm excited about that.” PeopleWellsIdeasHouseRecordsPlayerTvsSolitudeExcitedIntriguedRecord Players Author:Katee Sackhoff
“Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi. He holds numerous records, such as the most goals scored in a single La Liga season and the most goals scored in a calendar year. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. He has everything. We must protect him.” WorldYearsPersonsGoalRecordsPlayerFootballProtectSeasonsWorriedBeing The BestGood PersonCalendarsBest FootballFootball PlayerMessiBeing A Good PersonCristiano RonaldoLeo Messi Author:Jose Mourinho
“I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.” KnowsTryingMeanI CanPlayFunnySoundBlackWhiteRecordsPlayerListeningLet MeToneTrumpetsJust Listen Author:Miles Davis
“I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentUseCan DoMy OwnCompanyRecordsPlayerHugeBandStudiosOilVideoFlamesDifferent PeoplesRecord CompaniesPuddles Author:Richard Patrick
“Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.” WantStillsPlayOpportunityRecordsPlayerAmbitiousOrgansMediocreKeyboardsKeyboard Players Author:Al Kooper
“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsPlayWould BeSchoolUsedFunStuffRecordsComedyPlayerBrotherMaterialsMomHigh SchoolBillsAlbumsMy BrotherGradesFunny StuffRecord Players Author:Felipe Esparza
“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.” WayWellsCareersRecordsPlayerChangedCollegeMusicianJazzProfessorsClassical MusicJazz MusicTrumpetsJazz MusicianClassical MusiciansCollege Professors Author:Paul Smoker
“Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.” YearsArtTwoDiesBehindsRecordsFivePlayerWeekCaughtBarsCellsPianoFive YearsTwo YearsJailSessionArrestedJunkiePlayboyPeppersSaxophoneNarcoticsFetch Author:Jimmy Heath
“I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.” PeopleThinkingRecordsPlayerRocksGuitarPopsSoloGuitar Solos Author:Gary Cherone