Records Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
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Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
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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 have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.
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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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When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'
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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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Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.
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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 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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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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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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By the time we finish, it'll be silly the amount of records we've sold.
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I can really only can record at home.
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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.
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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 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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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.
