Records Quotes
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For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
Steve Aoki
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The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is to tour, and then you're revisiting history. Maybe it's better to leave it, if you see what I mean.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd
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Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.
Brian O'Driscoll
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We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy
Bert McCracken
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I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.
John Baizley Baroness
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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.
Merle Haggard
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Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
Wallace Pratt
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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.
Ty Segall
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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.
Ralph Stanley
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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
Tommy Bolin
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I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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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.
Steve Earle
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
Akon
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Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.
Ryan Adams
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You know, I don't only play for the record books.
Roger Federer
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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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.
KT Tunstall
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A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
Mickey Gilley
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I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.
Rick Rubin
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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.
Zachary Cole Smith
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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.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
Seth Godin
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I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.
Jason Mraz