Records Quotes
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When the song went #1, it got picked up by a major label, Cameo Parkway, out of Philadelphia. We sold over a million records.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
Records don't have to be perfect.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.
Luther Vandross Chic -
I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.
Michael Stephen Portnoy Adrenaline Mob -
Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.
Sharleen Spiteri Texas -
I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
Jay-Z
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Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
Jason Aldean -
When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.
Alex Chilton Big Star -
What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi -
To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
Jason Aldean -
There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.
Chris Matthews
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
Kevin Spacey -
I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
Zachary Cole Smith -
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
Eric San -
I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant -
Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.
Stephen Morris New Order -
'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
Kat Graham
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My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.
M. Ward -
The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Richard Thompson -
You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
Estelle