Track Quotes

• 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

• I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Up
  • Words
  • Action

• She didn't like the off-track the first time. I think she just runs better on the dry track.

  

  D. Wayne Lukas
  • Better
  • Runs
  • Dry

• True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Morality
  • Track
  • Finding

• Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Song
  • Gone

• I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
  • Dirt
  • Lakes
  • Crystals

• The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Night
  • Black
  • Color

• The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate. But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Economy
  • Track

• Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Men
  • Education
  • Genius

• I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Luck
  • Surprise

• Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Together
  • Song
  • Water

• 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
  • Records
  • I Wrote

• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moments

• I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • House
  • Player
  • Listening

• I've done songs, which have gone out to other artists or whatever, with me singing on, but they're just demos. There is a song called CANDY IN YOUR HANDS, which I think nearly became a Def Leppard B-side. It's got me playing on it and singing, cause no one else performed on the track. So, not in a Def Leppard sense, but we always release "rare" songs, so there's always a chance.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Chance
  • Songs
  • Artists

• I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Persons

• In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first and that's my favorite instrument to play. Once I get the drums done, everything else comes real quick. Also, we track in my friends' garage, which is really small ... there's not really room to record live with a band.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Done

• You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Basement

• So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful future of Syria to come together for national unity, for the political process. At the same time, it is a requirement for everybody to stop supporting the extremist groups, to stop allowing them safe passage, to stop allowing them to receive weapons, to stop allowing them to receive financial assistance, and to come together in actually fighting them.

  

  Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • Together
  • Political
  • Fighting

• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Secret

• I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Track
  • Orchestra
  • Guitarists

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