Peter Gabriel Quotes

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

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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

• 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

• '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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Record
  • Groove

• 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

• 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

• This was when we started taking it seriously, and found out about what hard, hard work really was. Mutt Lange at the helm at Battery studios in Willesden, London. Our first venture into video promo saw us featured on a new channel in America called MTV. The song from the album was "Bringin' on the Heartbreak". This album was slow to take off but a year after it's release it started to make waves in the U.S. Thanks to "Bringin'" on the MTV. The record is a favorite of mine.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Found
  • Record
  • London

• It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

  

  Red Smith
  • Football
  • Players
  • Ideal

• People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

  

  Prince
  • World
  • Alone

• A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Record
  • Sells