Records Quotes
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There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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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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One morning Gordy found out that Columbia Records, previous home of the Motown group the Four Tops, was going to rerelease one of the Tops’ old records. He instructed his top team at the time, Holland-Dozier-Holland, to produce a response, and by early afternoon they’d come up with “It’s the Same Old Song.” The track was recorded later the same day; the record was in stores three days later. It reached number five on the charts and became a classic.
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WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?
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It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.
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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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When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
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I always thought records were there to be broken.
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We wanted to make the opposite of all the records we've done. All along we've threatened people that we'd make a pop record, and now we have.
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Records led me to the techno scene, but it was never really my thing to play them.
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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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There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
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Our pitcher's records don't indicate the good performances they have had.
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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.
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I can really only can record at home.
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A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
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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.
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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.
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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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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.
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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.
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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
