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

• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  

  Witold Walczak
  • Record
  • Historical
  • Reporters

• Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Scotland

• I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Interesting
  • Sex
  • Personality

• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Danger
  • Triviality

• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

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

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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