Records Quotes
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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
Richard Thompson -
The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
Wanda Jackson
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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 -
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 -
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
Sarah Brightman -
I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
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 -
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
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Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records. Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
Eminem -
I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.
CC Sabathia -
Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
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.
Chris Stein Blondie -
Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
Janet Jackson
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No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix -
The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?
Norma Deloris Egstrom -
You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant -
I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
John Lennon The Beatles
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It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.
Steve Kerr -
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager -
To me, making records isn't work.
Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra -
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
Chris Owen