Records Quotes

• 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

• All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Records
  • Mainstream
  • Vocals

• Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Live
  • Song
  • Opportunity

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Band

• You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Records

• I'm trying to make pop records for the middle-class, lower-middle-class - pop for the 99 percent.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Records
  • Percent

• I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Period
  • Wanted

• But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Money
  • Cry

• 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
  • People
  • Singing
  • Young People

• Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Company
  • Records
  • Happenings

• I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Play

• I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."

  

  Zach Anner
  • Records
  • Foundation
  • Campaigns

• They [ Factory Records] are always looking for the next group, the next big thing, to bring the record sales in and for them to promote and everything, but Factory just sign who they want to, put records by who they want to out, package it how they want to, how they like doing it. It's just run like that.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Running
  • Sales
  • Groups

• Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

  

  Eric San
  • Stories
  • Records
  • Pencil

• I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Speed
  • Conservative
  • Albums

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Records
  • Tend
  • Approachable

• I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

  

  Juan Campodónico Bajofondo
  • New
  • Records
  • Listened

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