Records Quotes

• 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

• 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

• My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

  

  Tim Gane
  • Sun
  • Stuff
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Independent

• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

  

  Melissa Manchester
  • People
  • Believe
  • Songwriting

• It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Band

• I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock !!!

  

  Carmine Appice Cactus
  • Unique
  • Excited
  • Labels

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • I Love

• Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

  

  William Osler
  • Practice
  • Feels
  • Communicate

• Having your own space is getting rarer and rarer these days. It's dangerous giving someone like me - who grew up fantasizing about studios and records - the freedom and resources to build your own studio. I would just live in it, which is what I pretty much did for all of the '90s.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Freedom
  • Records
  • Resources

• I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria' - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • King
  • Lessons
  • Singer

• Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • Friends
  • Records
  • Far

• 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

• You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Records

• Records led me to the techno scene, but it was never really my thing to play them.

  

  Paul Kalkbrenner
  • Play
  • Records
  • Scene

• I played on Asia records with Geoff Downes.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Records
  • Asia
  • Geoff Downes

• Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

  

  Jules Verne
  • American
  • President
  • Meeting

• I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

  

  Judy Collins
  • People
  • Music
  • Chance

• You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Records
  • Dogs
  • Released

• Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Soul
  • Records
  • Package

• Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture of horror and awe: Then Kleisthenes took into his faction the common people.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Emotion
  • Horror
  • Faction

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