Records Quotes
-
A fair realization of the incredible degree of the diversity of linguistic system that ranges over the globe leaves one with an inescapable feeling that the human spirit is inconceivably old; that the few thousand years of history covered by our written records are no more than the thickness of a pencil mark on the scale that measures our past experience on this planet; that the events of these recent millenniums spell nothing in any evolutionary wise, that the race has taken no sudden spurt, achieved no commanding synthesis during recent millenniums, but has only played a little with a few of the linguistic formulations and views of nature bequeathed from an inexpressibly longer past.
-
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.
-
People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
-
I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
-
I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
-
I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.
-
It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
-
Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.
-
I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
-
I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
-
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
-
The group MoveOn.org has called on John McCain to release all of his medical records. In response, McCain told them, 'Why don't you just come down to the warehouse and look around for yourself? Bring a forklift, it'll take time.'
-
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.
-
All records are made to be broken.
-
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
-
Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.
-
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
-
It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.
-
Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
-
Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.
-
I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
-
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
-
I would INSIST this record is in NO WAY COLD influenced. Don't get me bent though, I have been a huge fan of Cold from day one. One of the best most awesome song writers. Kelly has in OWN sound, He recorded on the POINT OF ORIGIN Record so there, of course, will be something that familiarizes the Cold sound. But Allele is much heavier, and just kind of warmer, different techniques and a different sound all together. Allele I think is more intense.
-
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
