Record Quotes
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.
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So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
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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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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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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.
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I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.
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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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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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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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I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.
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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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For the record, I am not going anywhere ... I'm very happy in the Cavaliers' uniform and I'm going to be wearing this uniform for a long time, OK?
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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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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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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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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.
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Making every record is a process full of tough times.
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We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.
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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 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.
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When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.
