"One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record."
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"I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet [Jackson] likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do."
"Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job."
"Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography."
"One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record."
"I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music."
"There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make."
"I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels."
"I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived."
"Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything."
"More recently I've come to terms with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. That's why you start to see me recoiling from 'let's put out radio records, let's get rich and get on out of here.' I have gone towards more speaking to kids and putting out records that I like."
"I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is."
"If I didn't love it, I would not record it."
"An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks."
"It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial."
"I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record"."
"If you listen to Bryson Tiller's record, there's some real music. There's some trap stuff, but if you listen to what's on top of that stuff, that's real music. I look at that and I know it's real. I respect it immensely."
"People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing."
"I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else."
"Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records."