Record Quotes
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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.
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'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.
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Chancellor Wiley and Coach Alvarez have extended me a fantastic opportunity to build on our record of success and great tradition. I'm enthusiastic about the future of Badger football and this chance to advance the program.
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Making every record is a process full of tough times.
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Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.
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My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
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I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
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It would be special, just to know I had the best rookie season a running back has had in this league, especially a record that's been however old it is.
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I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.
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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.
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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.
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There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.
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I have total confidence in Chuck, and I think his track record speaks for him. The proof is in what they've done.
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We're not about radio hits; we're not about selling one song or one record. Four records in, we have a body of work. And I know we're a better band, making better music, than we've ever been.
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I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.
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We lost to the team with the worst record in the NFL. It's time for some answers.
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When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.
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If there's a proven track record, the odds are higher that success can be repeated. This is what we investors always hope for.
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I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
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I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
