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I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Sa... OLLY MURS
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I thought I did okay despite the lack of training, but one of my listeners told me that while I thou...
JULIE CORDOVA I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT
I consider the recording studio where I was born. JIMMY IOVINE And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of mu...
TOM SCHOLZ I've been kind of a smaller kid, so I figured if I was going to make it playing basketball, I'd have...
DYLAN MCCUNE I have a lot of memories with these people. It was great recording with Hendrix [and] playing with S...
DAVE MASON It was a good experience. We learned a lot as a basketball team. It's definitely going to help us.
JOSH MEEKER While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and p...
KAREN CARPENTER There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its e...
PETER GARRETT
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making ... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for y...
JOHNNY MATHIS said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by p...
DRAKE BELL
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music... RICK RUBIN I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express fee...
JANE CHEN
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. EARVIN ''MAGIC'' JOHNSON They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o...
HERBIE HANCOCK Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it ...
MAIKA MONROE I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it's beautiful.
FLO RIDA I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give t...
FLO RIDA I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
FLO RIDA If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people ...
FLO RIDA I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
FLO RIDA At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop b...
FLO RIDA I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd lo...
FLO RIDA It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a posi...
FLO RIDA I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
FLO RIDA I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll te...
FLO RIDA I'm influenced by all types of music.
FLO RIDA I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, ...
FLO RIDA I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. ...
FLO RIDA I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
FLO RIDA The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, ...
FLO RIDA I've been playing basketball since I was a little kid. It's always been a big part of my life. My in...
MATT CRAIG For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi...
SAM BRADFORD I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out...
BRENDAN FRASER Studios were always out of reach for everyday people; people who a few years ago didn't know anythin...
JAMES BILLINGTON
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later. They didn't know. So I helped educate sports,... MAGIC JOHNSON The one thing about A.J. is that he was always very passionate about playing basketball. It was alwa...
WILL BROWN In the first quarter we were moving the ball well and were going to our strengths. But in the second...
STEVE AUSTIN It was always such a joy going down the M40 to do my stint on The Archers. They were like a second f...
LUCY DAVIS It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a son...
BRENDA RUSSELL I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make ...
BECKY LUCIDI It's early, but I really like this team, ... What you see is a bunch of professionals going out ther...
ANTONIO DANIELS
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a p... BAHMAN GHOBADI
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. POST MALONE
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in r... JIMMY PAGE
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it. TA-NEHISI COATES They were actually camping out for the midnight madness, so I got a chance to shake some hands and s...
JODIE MEEKS I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
DIPLO It was definitely a good experience, getting a NBA type coach and being able to play 30 minutes a ga...
DWAYNE JONES We didn't execute they way we had been preparing to. Basketball is about effort and execution. The e...
CRAIG PIPPEN
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbeliev... GARTH BROOKS
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica,... MICHAEL FRANTI But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate spo... MAGIC JOHNSON After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. ...
JOSH LOGAN I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obs...
RACHELE BROOKE SMITH When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such ...
KYLA REID It wasn't intentional or anything like that. I was just playing basketball.
JEFF ADRIEN When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so...
BEN SCHWARTZ
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to tw... M. WARD That was a fluke. I'd recorded a lot of stuff for this record. I worked on it over a year. Toward th...
LEE ROCKER Retiring at 57 was a good idea. But playing golf and boating and fishing got a little old after a wh...
JERRY GREEN
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the ... UNKNOWN I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL
I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote. KIM ALEXIS Being used so much is a surprise. I was planning on playing a little more baseball. When I started p...
BRETT CASEY
Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else. DAVE GROHL The only thing we focused on was going out and playing the way we play: physical, smart, fast,
BOB SANDERS Sometimes I played because I wanted to get out of a bad mood, sometimes because I was worried about ...
REBECCA LOBO The guy was in his way, so it's not like (Morgan) was trying to hit him. You definitely like playing...
DEREK HANKINS
What was nice for me was not knowing anything about music and not being a singer or player and kind ... JOAQUIN PHOENIX
I think I've always had a sort of fantasy or dream that I would like to make a living playing music.... STING He did fine, better than I thought. I think he was excited to start playing basketball again.
RICK ADELMAN I started playing music when I was really young.
ALEKSA PALLADINO I thought baseball was going to be the way to go for me. Now I definitely think football's my future...
CAZ PIUROWSKI I was playing baseball for Penn Hills, some guys saw me and kind of recruited me to play basketball.
DENNY JACKSON I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was play...
LAURA BELL BUNDY Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
DEREK BAILEY My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big...
NAS It's such a special place. My first couple of years, I was definitely pretty nervous and couldn't re...
CHAD CAMPBELL You used to have to block 10 or 11 guys. Instead of playing 5-on-5 in basketball, it's 2-on-2 or 3-o...
JOE NOVAK When I was warming up and it was windy and cold, it was more like a job, not going out to have fun p...
JAMES BLAKE We just played good team basketball. It was a game of two good teams playing hard.
BILL MCELROY I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
HARLEY VIERA-NEWTON I told them there was no way I was going to run out on them,
ROGER CLEMENS He was not a kook surfer who was way out of his league. Without a doubt in my mind, it was definitel...
DAN WATTS
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst... NANCY WILLARD He was enthusiastic about getting back to practice and playing basketball, ... We're going to contin...
STEVE FRANCIS I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I w...
BRIDGETTE WILSON To be honest when I was playing at the end I just fell out of love with the game and I was going thr...
KENNY DALGLISH Because, according to him, (hockey) was a white man's game and I should be playing basketball becaus...
GERALD COLEMAN
