Record Quotes

• The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

  

  Arthur Danto
  • Reality
  • Record
  • Magazine

• I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Fans
  • Choice
  • Deserve

• It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Paint
  • Aid
  • Manifests

• Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

  

  Jon Landau
  • Record
  • Accomplishment
  • Completed

• As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Record
  • Tour
  • Promotion

• I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Record
  • The Beatles
  • Remake

• Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.

  

  Arfa Karim
  • Challenge
  • Record
  • Following

• The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Death
  • Service

• 'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Album
  • Concept
  • The Black Parade

• I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

  

  David Malouf
  • Write
  • Record
  • Discover

• I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

  

  Alastair Wood
  • Record
  • Heard

• I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Drums

• To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Book
  • Way
  • Record

• I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

  

  Abby Sunderland
  • Record
  • Break
  • Solo

• Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I find interesting — either because it resonates or because I disagree. All of it is fodder for continued work or thinking on the topics. It’s also important to me to record the ideas that my instincts tell me are bad.

  

  Elizabeth Spiers
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Idea

• Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Home
  • Black
  • Anybody

• [Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Record
  • Magazines
  • Punk World

• No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .

  

  Bob Tyrrell
  • Experience
  • Political
  • President

• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Record
  • Foo Fighters

• It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Love
  • Record
  • Labels

• Andrew Ridgeley and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

  

  George Michael
  • Money
  • Songs
  • Break

• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  

  Witold Walczak
  • Historical
  • Reporters
  • Validate

• Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Record
  • Nuclear energy

• I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • People
  • Cold
  • Record

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