Records Quotes
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
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Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.
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'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
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You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?
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What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.
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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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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?
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
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My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.
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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.
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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.
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We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.
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To me, making records isn't work.
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I think my records will always tend to be approachable.
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I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
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We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.
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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.
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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!
