Records Quotes
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When I record in a studio I don't use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound - which is my favorite sound.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
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There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.
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I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
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We don't want to be as big as U2. I like U2. It's a band that still makes good records. We'd like to make a couple more good records.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
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We always just go out there and do what we do. That's the way we approach all of our records.
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I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.
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Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara - things that you probably shouldn't like.
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When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.
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It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."
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Records can be erased and replaced, but memories will remain.
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The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.
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Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
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When the song went #1, it got picked up by a major label, Cameo Parkway, out of Philadelphia. We sold over a million records.
