Record Quotes

• Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Rhetoric
  • Young Man
  • Talanted

• I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Record
  • Musicians
  • Twice

• Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Record
  • Project
  • Beyonce

• You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Search

• For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time.

  

  Bernard Fanning
  • Christmas
  • Kiss
  • Beatles

• I think I was making a Stephen Fearing record, and I mentioned to someone that the Tragically Hip were talking to me about working with them. The Canadians in the room couldn't believe it, as if the Beatles were getting back together again and asking me to produce them. I have to say, as an American, it's different; they're not exactly a national treasure here.

  

  Steve Berlin Los Lobos
  • Working
  • Record
  • Produce

• Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our society is culminated, dumbed-down and mass produced, there is a shining jewel in the rise of the indy record stores. Going to a record shop for me is like a little treasure hunt no one can take you on but yourself. It's fun to look around and see the other shoppers too...totally entrenched in their own adventure, anticipating the reward of heart wrenching, soul filling, joy making music that might just be a bin or a flip away.

  

  Elizabeth Cook
  • Music
  • Society
  • Adventure

• It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Unique
  • Companies
  • Sign

• The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

  

  Aaron Tippin
  • Love
  • True
  • Romantic

• I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Record
  • Styles
  • Genesis

• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Record

• After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Child
  • Record
  • Since

• For us, we were a "live" band making music that was basically "live" music. There was no need for us to do it longer. We were ready to make a record. And we play and sing at the same time. We didn't do a lot of overdubs. Berton played his lead guitar part. We can play, that's the other thing. The band is actually fairly competent on their instruments.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Fans
  • Record
  • Make Music

• When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Song
  • Revolution

• I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Goal
  • Ambition
  • Musicians

• It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Career
  • Better
  • Record

• I recorded 80 per cent of the record in my guest bedroom; then, when 'Shine' went to number one on one of the charts, the label called and said, 'Can you do an EP?' Then, 'Can you do a full length? And can you do it in two weeks?'

  

  Joshua Ostrander
  • Record
  • Bedroom
  • Charts

• Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Time
  • Band
  • Portrait

• Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Discover
  • Contradictions
  • Good Charlotte

• I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Sound
  • Record
  • Rule

• I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

  

  James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
  • Band
  • Record
  • Performance

• We have nothing to crow about, our home record has been atrocious, we've got a long ways to go before we feel we're on top.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Long
  • Home
  • Ways

• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Record
  • Camera
  • Senses

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Songs

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