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.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Record
  • Exist
  • Get

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Long
  • Record
  • Metallica

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

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Record
  • Executive

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• '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

• I have a relatively good track record.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Record
  • Track

• 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.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Record
  • Opinions
  • Anti-people

• I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Remember
  • Once
  • Brick

• 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

• Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Record
  • Cities
  • Buy

• If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Company
  • Record
  • Product

• 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?

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• 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

• I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

  

  Brad Mehldau
  • Opportunity
  • Record
  • Privilege

• You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Need
  • Evidence
  • Bank

• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  

  Edward Dorn
  • Sleep
  • Language
  • Reasons

• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Live
  • Die
  • Discovered

• 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.

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • Record
  • Damaging
  • Brick