Records Quotes

• I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.

  

  Bobby Rush
  • Records
  • Sell
  • Trunk

• I like to produce my own records, because I know in my head where I want to take it.

  

  John Rich Lonestar
  • Head
  • Take
  • Produce

• We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Together
  • Body
  • Medical

• Better hide the wine and get it gone. Oh, I better hide every one of them records that turn me on (lock ‘um up, lock ‘um up). Turn up the lights and kill the mood, oh, ’cause, baby, I just don’t trust myself with you. I better hide the wine.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Wine

• Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Player

• I would INSIST this record is in NO WAY COLD influenced. Don't get me bent though, I have been a huge fan of Cold from day one. One of the best most awesome song writers. Kelly has in OWN sound, He recorded on the POINT OF ORIGIN Record so there, of course, will be something that familiarizes the Cold sound. But Allele is much heavier, and just kind of warmer, different techniques and a different sound all together. Allele I think is more intense.

  

  Wally Wood
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• I think what was great with the Cult was that we were allowed to evolve. We made different types of records, which was interesting. You play 'Love' and 'Electric' back to back, and they're really not that similar.

  

  Billy Duffy The Cult
  • Interesting
  • Similar
  • The Cult

• I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Listening
  • Enjoy
  • Indian Music

• For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Art
  • Knows
  • Sacred

• SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Black
  • Firsts
  • Wanted

• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Responsibility
  • Records
  • Artists

• The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Live
  • Records
  • Make Money

• I always think I'm going to record a lot on tour but it's always hard to fit it in the schedule, and there's a whole lotta' other extra curricular activities that happen on the road.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Thinking
  • Road
  • Schedules

• There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Space
  • Able
  • Capacity

• I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Looks
  • Sales
  • Figures

• The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Achievement
  • Records
  • Audiences

• There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • May
  • Looks
  • Police

• When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Records
  • Redneck

• With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Facebook and some other places. That's how I've done everything with my previous records. I've always kept it organic.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Done
  • Campaigns
  • Announcements

• If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Business
  • Reputation
  • Popularity

• If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Creativity
  • Find
  • Records

• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Records
  • Kid
  • Played

• I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Magic
  • Performance

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