Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

Elvis Costello

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Record
  • Boring

• I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Record
  • Executive

• 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

  

  Imelda May
  • Me
  • Company
  • Record

• All labels are offensive in some way.

  

  J Mascis
  • Way
  • Labels
  • Offensive

• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Record
  • Track

• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Record
  • Novel

• Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Leaving
  • Record
  • Make

• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • People
  • Remember
  • Labels

• When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Done
  • Record
  • Times

• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Age
  • Reading

• I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

  

  Adele
  • Real
  • Write
  • Record

• When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

  

  Doris Day
  • Record
  • Anything
  • Spontaneous

• Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Record
  • Groove

• When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Dad

• It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Everything is going to focus around the record, which he is diligently working on now. It's no different from any other hip-hop act; we're going to look for the right opportunities.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Focus
  • Record
  • Act

• I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Time
  • Track
  • Lyric

• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

  

  Plato
  • Bodies
  • Bound
  • Oyster

• It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Record
  • Labels
  • Cardboard