Records Quotes
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I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.
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I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
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I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
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It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.
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There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
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To me, making records isn't work.
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What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.
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We dropped records off in stores in Flint, and they were getting sold out. We didn't really even know anyone in Flint.
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Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushing the envelope a little bit too far. We weren't happy with the distribution we were getting, and a few other things. So for a lot of ways it made sense for us to jump to a major label right then, and it made sense in terms of challenging ourselves to put ourselves in new situations.
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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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I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
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Dad always says, 'The Yankees got all the records and we got the rings,'
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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.
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It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
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Even if someone doesn't have birth or health records we enroll them, ... Everybody is doing everything they can to support these evacuees because they are homeless.
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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.
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How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.
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The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
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When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.
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When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
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I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
