Record Quotes

• The live thing is separate from the record for me. I have to figure out a way to make the songs work live. It's always going to be different than it is on a record, because every record I've made, there are people playing parts on there that are not going to be coming on tour with me. As much as still feeling connected to it, it's more like rediscovering.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Songs
  • Separate
  • Rediscovering

• People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Record

• The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

  

  Paul Horn
  • Audience
  • Record
  • Open

• Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Upset
  • Press
  • Feedback

• Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Record
  • Intimacy

• Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Failure
  • Helps

• 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
  • Successful
  • Playing
  • Bars

• I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

  

  Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami
  • Think
  • Record
  • Sleeping

• 'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Song
  • Abstract
  • Concrete

• I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Record
  • Result

• One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Friends
  • History
  • Record

• I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?" But then, if I were to try to make a record for teens, I'd be doing exactly what I said I didn't want to do. That'd be posturing. And I'm watching other people trying to do that, and they all look stupid. But for some of them, it's working, so cash in.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Stupid
  • Working
  • Changed

• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Story
  • Ghost
  • Monsters

• I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Criticism
  • Record
  • Challenging

• Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Jobs
  • Record
  • Effective

• When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Stars
  • Silent
  • Generations

• I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Fun
  • Record
  • Black Hours

• I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Sales
  • Frustrated
  • Affect

• I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Wanted
  • Record
  • Standards

• A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Record
  • Break
  • Bands

• As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Band
  • Player
  • Inspired

• Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Making
  • Surgery
  • Anesthetic

• We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Picture
  • Record
  • Image

• Admitted mama's boy here - put that on the record.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Record
  • Admitted

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