Records Quotes
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It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
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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 also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
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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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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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I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.
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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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In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.
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Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.
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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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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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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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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
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We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.
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Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
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No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.
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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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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.
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There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass.
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I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.
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Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
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AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
