Track Quotes

• We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Creative

• All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Speak
  • Records
  • Alive

• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Chinese

• The most recent evidence ... suggests that the economic expansion remains on track.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Evidence
  • Track
  • Expansion

• I'm an emotional person. I'm not going to deny that. If I feel a certain way, I'll express it on the track.

  

  Lil Yachty
  • Emotional
  • Track
  • Express

• Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Atmosphere

• We Jamaicans are not so much stressed about time, you know, but you have to stay on top of it. And, of course, on the track, every time we go on the track, it is all about the seconds and the fractions of a second that count.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Goes On
  • Stressed

• No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Gay
  • Baby

• Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Lose
  • Strange
  • Characters

• I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Driving

• A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Lasts
  • Albums

• When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

  

  Weegee
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Tears

• 'Firestarter' was like that. Keith heard the track as an instrumental and thought it was wicked and said he couldn't wait to dance to it on stage. He sat down there for a while and then said 'I would love to put some vocals on this'. We put the actual words down in a London studio, and I can't explain the feeling me and Keith got that night, driving home listening to the tape, playing it over and over again. I knew then it was something original, that I had achieved something.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Original
  • Vocals
  • Keith

• At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Time
  • Play
  • Houston

• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Long
  • Attention

• Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Leader
  • Sound
  • Musician

• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  

  William Hurt
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Promise

• All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a band you want your music to sound good in that medium. Sometimes when I'm doing a mix I'll listen to it on my laptop, on the crappy speakers on my laptop. It lets me know what the tracks gonna sound like if someone else listens to it that way.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• I'm just protecting my children and making sure I pull them in the right direction so they don't end up like me with having to go through all that hardship. They may not survive so it's all about putting them on the right track.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Children
  • Direction
  • Survive

• 'Blue Monday' is a dance track with a hint of melancholy.

  

  Gillian Gilbert New Order
  • Dance
  • Track
  • Melancholy

• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Together

• I like working together with different producers. Of course the process is different, producing a new track is like creating something all new, while reworking an already existing track is more like giving your own twist to the record.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Working
  • Record
  • Producers

• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  

  Bun B
  • Melody
  • Rapping
  • Cadence

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