Witold Walczak Quotes

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

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• 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
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

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

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Long
  • Record
  • Metallica

• Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Record
  • Bully
  • Historically

• 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

• 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

• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Always
  • Film
  • Historical

• 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

• 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 always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Job
  • Band

• 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

• One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Record
  • Leave

• I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Record
  • Afford
  • Bootlegging

• Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Gold
  • Record

• Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that we wrote was "Out Of My Heart" which is the first single. As soon as we wrote that, we knew we just set the standard and every other song had to be as good if not better.

  

  Christian Burns
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Record

• If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Myself
  • Record
  • Point

• I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.

  

  Lil Xan
  • Dad
  • Influence
  • Record

• Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Country
  • Control
  • Attitude

• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  

  Witold Walczak
  • Record
  • Historical
  • Reporters