I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.
Tony: Have you been playing my records you little twat? Billy: I never played nowt. Tony: Nob'ed.
Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.
Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.
I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.
You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
