Records Quotes

• From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into the blues, jazz and classical. I always had a pop sensibility. I mean I'm making records to sell em!

  

  Dave Mason
  • Popular
  • Making
  • Sell

• I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • World
  • Eyes

• You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Band
  • Records
  • Documentary

• When the song went #1, it got picked up by a major label, Cameo Parkway, out of Philadelphia. We sold over a million records.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Song
  • Records
  • Label

• For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

  

  Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
  • Rock
  • Records
  • Hip Hop

• All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Speak
  • Alive
  • Track

• When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Through
  • Flows
  • Peaks

• I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Pay
  • Share

• Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Records

• We hooked up with a small label, and they gave us 500 records. I thought they would send them out to all the radio stations. They told us that was our job…do whatever you want with them.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Records
  • Label
  • Radio Station

• I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

  

  CC Sabathia
  • Care
  • Able
  • Playoffs

• I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

  

  Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
  • Thinking
  • Knows
  • Burden

• You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Time
  • Song
  • Titles

• The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

  

  Estelle
  • Songs
  • Track
  • I Wrote

• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Criticism
  • Guitars
  • Anachronism

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Music
  • Selling
  • Sake

• When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Guitar
  • Records
  • Box

• I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Religious
  • Records
  • Point Of View

• What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Relation
  • Dynamics
  • Projection

• We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Records
  • Hoping
  • Flop

• It is a discreetly sensual act of disclosure, showing their pieces together in public. And assembling these lacquers also records their assignations: the collection records their love-affair, their own secret history of touch.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • History
  • Secret
  • Collection

• Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Music
  • Television
  • Young People

• I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Way
  • Habit
  • Details

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