Record Quotes
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When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
Dickey Betts
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I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.
Mordecai Brown
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I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.
Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
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I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
Noureddine Morceli
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And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
Noureddine Morceli
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The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
Paul Provenza
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I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Susannah McCorkle
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When you go into the whole realm of creating your own music and seeing the project through, it's increasingly difficult because nowadays a lot of people are making music all on their own - the individual instead of the band. And when you have such a solid vision and you spend so much time working on one idea and allowing it to manifest in your mind through a record, and then you have to go and find people to help you see it through live, it gets really overwhelming, to have to project and really clearly state what you're trying to do and how you want them to do it.
Ahmed Gallab
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We just wanted to be successful enough to have another record. We went from playing bars in front of three people to selling out Madison Square Garden, all on our first record. We were surprised at how successful it was, and we still are.
Paul Doucette
Matchbox Twenty
