Alex Van Halen Quotes
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
Sammy Sosa -
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
B. B. King -
If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
Barry Mann -
As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
'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 -
Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
Edan Lepucki
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I have a relatively good track record.
Pat Robertson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We never set out to be superstars.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
Kylie Minogue
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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?
Lorde -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele -
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
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
Kevin Spacey -
It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca -
Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system.
Roger Alan Painter Christian Death -
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
Alex Van Halen Van Halen