Records Quotes

• It would be crazy for me to come out now talking about selling drugs and doing all this stuff I never did for the sake of A&R or records or trying to keep the street buzz or whatever.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Stuff
  • Drugs
  • A&R

• 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 have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • Europe
  • Could
  • Million

• It's no secret that my favorite part of the process is making records; if I'm not making them with Flatts, then I'm out producing them on other folks.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Records
  • Producing
  • No Secrets

• Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Musician
  • Breathed
  • Priorities In Life

• Speaking of WAMU, bluegrass and old time music DJ Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Records
  • Speaking

• When people downloading records for free you start to think, "Is it worth spending all this money to make a record sound good, especially if it's going to end up as an mp3?" But I can't drive myself too crazy thinking about that. On one level, being involved in art is all a quixotic thing to begin with.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Money
  • Art
  • Think

• People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

  

  Kevin Martin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Buying

• At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Records
  • Phonograph

• The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

  

  Brendan Benson
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Strange

• 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

• 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

• Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Records
  • Hobbies
  • Collecting

• 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 am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

  

  William Clark Green
  • Sound
  • Believer
  • Compliment

• Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Meditate
  • Extension
  • Motions

• I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

  

  Andrew Bazzi
  • Music
  • Records
  • Release

• I can really only can record at home.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Home
  • Records

• All records are made to be broken.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Broken
  • Records

• Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Differences
  • Records
  • Cameras

• Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Kind
  • Care
  • Process

• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Baseball
  • Performance
  • Transparent

• The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.

  

  Roland Orzabal
  • 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

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