Stephen Morris Quotes
If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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'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.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
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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.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
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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.
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
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Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.
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If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.
