Records Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.
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Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.
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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.
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Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know about, to meet someone more passionate than you are, and to feel at home in a place you may never have been to before. I'm convinced they will never lose their place - Long may they rule.
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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
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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.
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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.
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I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.
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I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
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By the time we finish, it'll be silly the amount of records we've sold.
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I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
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I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
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What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.
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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.
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I can really only can record at home.
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I love making records. That's my favorite part of the whole process. And I love playing live, but certainly getting the music on a disc that's going to live forever and be there forever, just every little detail drives me crazy.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
