When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught... →
Quincy Jones
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and... →
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I... →
Star Jones
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel... →
Tom Jones
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because... →
Jim Jordan
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June Jordan
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
Bill Joy
When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as... →
Jackie Joyner-Kersee