Records Quotes
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
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Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.
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Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.
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Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.
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I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
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A record is a message, timeless.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
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I couldn't give a shit if my records sell or not.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
