My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used to scratch records on it - and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom's record or Pop's record, and they had their names on each and every one.
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Related I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the... LADY GAGA Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Record... SHAWN MENDES My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there we... LYLE LOVETT I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based. RAIN PHOENIX When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-roc... MOBY Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other h... QUEEN LATIFAH I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do ... ANDY SUMMERS My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worrie... SIMON LE BON We had a record number of records. CHRISTOPHER BURGE When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original ... ELISHA CUTHBERT Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able... JOAN JETT That was fraud. We had records that showed they spent this on personal expenses. That was in the rec... GAIL GRIFFIN I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to pla... PATTY LOVELESS I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people ... BONNIE TYLER When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all ... MARC MARON You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo... EDDIE VEDDER If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put ou... STAN GETZ I used to chart the records. I used to listen Hit Parade. I was in love with the Hit Parade for its ... ART GARFUNKEL The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodma... JERRY LEIBER People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they do... AL GREEN When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of... MERYL STREEP The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. I... JON CROSBY If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. GARTH BROOKS I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, becau... ADAM YAUCH I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was '... LAURA BENANTI The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician ... VINCE GILL For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five ... JACOBY SHADDIX Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - an... J. D. SOUTHER When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my... GARY NUMAN I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... DR. DRE I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between... HARVEY PEKAR Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but... DESMOND DEKKER I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much mo... BRITT DANIEL Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different y... BECK I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You... ELTON JOHN A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that t... BOY GEORGE It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kil... DIPLO One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from ... RAF SIMONS When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a... BRANDON BOYD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame ... TOMMY LEE You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the... EMMYLOU HARRIS Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. An... DMX I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to ma... SAM HUNT One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the loca... IMELDA MAY Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the... DICK DALE Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release o... HUEY LEWIS We had some personal records today and we had some other records who were right on average. I think ... DENNY CHALK I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn... AMBER ROSE I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had po... DAVE GROHL There's all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they're quite non-digital. ... JEREMY ALLAIRE I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records. DARIUS RUCKER There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by h... MOBY From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me... BROWNIE MCGHEE There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily con... NICK MASON The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but ma... BARBARA WALTERS I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these... EDDIE VEDDER I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front... TROY CARTER I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re... ANDREW BIRD My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they di... TIM GANE I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's... DAVID SANBORN I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualif... JOHN MELLENCAMP Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn... GRANDMASTER FLASH Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone... ROMY MADLEY CROFT He became the first member of a major pop group to win creative control of the records, ... He was t... DAVID LEAF It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be... DAN MARINO We went on the Internet and checked out the Guinness World Records site. There was no record for tip... ADAM ZULEGER I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, thes... HARVEY PEKAR I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records. BILLY SHERWOOD There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody ha... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu... BILLY CORGAN Records... a record just shouldn't be that important. BRUCE JOHNSTON We're hoping to change a lot of records. We're kind of going on a record-breaking frenzy. CARRIE ENRIGHT One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. ... CHRIS YOUNG I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performi... LANGHORNE SLIM A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must... MAXWELL I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who ... BILL MUMY China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain... QUINCY JONES I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably ... M. WARD I have had every hair color. I joke with my hair colorist. She keeps sheets of paper on every hair c... BRITTANY SNOW I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartm... WARREN G If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - ... JIMMY IOVINE If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on... JESSIE BAYLIN Shimamoto was in charge of the records. She'd take one from its jacket, place it carefully on the tu... HARUKI MURAKAMI All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the... JERMAINE DUPRI The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... W... DICK CHENEY We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too earl... BRETT ANDERSON My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' ... TY SEGALL One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd. DAVE MUSTAINE I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. ... LOU ADLER I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sample... MIKE SHINODA There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. ... DAVID FOSTER When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very stra... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik... GIL SCOTT-HERON I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive ... CAITLIN ROSE The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covere... MARIAN MCPARTLAND
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BRITE This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b... POPPY Z. BRITE In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc... POPPY Z. BRITE No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven R. Z. SHEPPARD At some point you have to start letting people save their own life. POPPY Z. BRITE An able practitioner of glitz lit. R. Z. SHEPPARD Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comf... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also rega... EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG An old man loved is winter with flowers. EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated... R. Z. SHEPPARD His reserve of disdain appears endless. 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