Records Quotes

• I think if you're an artist my advice to you is really stick to your guns and don't make records for anyone else. If you sign to a record label they always want to change you and you don't really need in a label that much anymore unless you're a real Pop band where they have to spend a lot of money on you.

  

  Paul Hardcastle
  • Advice
  • Label
  • Stick

• I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Selling
  • Embarrassing
  • Borderline

• When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Boards
  • Fats
  • My Favorite

• In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Name
  • Records
  • Job Interview

• Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.

  

  Azran Osman Rani
  • Records
  • Nation
  • Medals

• I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Facts
  • Records
  • Accepting

• Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• 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

• It’s a nice feeling to make and break records but one shouldn’t get too used to it because it’s not going to happen every time. So no point competing with previous records. I believe we should work hard, try our best and then let people decide if they like the film or not.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The group MoveOn.org has called on John McCain to release all of his medical records. In response, McCain told them, 'Why don't you just come down to the warehouse and look around for yourself? Bring a forklift, it'll take time.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Why
  • John McCain

• The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Records
  • Discover

• People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • People
  • Fans
  • Records

• 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

• Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Records
  • Phenomenon
  • Cracked Rear View

• Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Rest
  • Natural
  • Performing

• I can really only can record at home.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Home
  • Records

• I generally had a pretty good relationship with Siouxsie. She can have a pretty sharp sense of humour, but can also be quite playful at times. I liked playing records with her and especially talking about Mick Ronson. She reckoned that whilst everyone admired Bowie as Ziggy, Mick was sexier.

  

  Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Relationship
  • Records
  • Humour

• Since I broke so many world records I have had the little extra pressure that every time I enter a competition every one expects me to break the world record. But it is not easy. Five meters is a whole different world and since Helsinki I have been very tired.

  

  Yelena Isinbayeva
  • World
  • Records
  • Broke

• I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church will listen to me. They will come out to a place to see me play. They will buy all of my records and everything, but they don't believe in bringing that instrument in the church. But, they'll come and watch me somewhere else. Why that is, I don't know.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Church
  • Records
  • Don't Believe

• As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

  

  Akon
  • People
  • Long
  • Giving

• I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Long
  • Enough
  • Company

• Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Musician

• 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

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