Records Quotes

• Well, this is shortly after the idea was put to me because it wasn't my idea to do a Christmas record. We can talk about that a little bit, if you like, later on. But I wrote that song actually about two days after the idea was put to me.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• 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.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Listening
  • Records

• I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Wanted
  • Stuff
  • Boxes

• Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Common
  • Records
  • Rhyme

• 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

• 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

• literature is the record of our discontent.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Literature
  • Records
  • Discontent

• An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

  

  Nathan Rabin
  • Paper
  • Letters
  • Newspapers

• 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

• 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
  • Positions

• I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Meaningful

• 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

• 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

• Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Stuff
  • Orchestra

• 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

• Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Selling
  • Fantastic
  • Knives

• I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times

  

  William Michael Griffin Jr.
  • Records
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this; I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Interesting
  • Sound
  • Intention

• You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Decision
  • Pool
  • Amount

• A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Live
  • Shows
  • Records

• A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Records
  • Appearance
  • Vehicle

• When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.

  

  Blake Lewis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Laugh

• 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

• 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

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