Records Quotes
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You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.
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I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.
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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
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I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.
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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
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I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.
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Nobody considers a covers record an album.
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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
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I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
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Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.
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I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
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I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
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For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.
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I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!
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An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.
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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.
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First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
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When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
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Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
