Record Quotes

• We've always prided ourselves on making a record that we want to feel proud of, ones that are hopefully timeless so they can be around for a long time.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Record
  • Timeless
  • Prided

• I've discovered this trend in popular criticism that because our first record was such a -- critical darling ... that now people are hesitant to give us too many accolades. We didn't know exactly how we needed to change. But we knew from the experience from 'Room on Fire' where people, where critics mainly, were saying that it was sonically too similar to the first record, we needed to step up.

  

  Fabrizio Moretti
  • Experience
  • Criticism
  • Discovered

• When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Book
  • House
  • Player

• I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Kids
  • Record
  • Radio

• I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Culture
  • Inspiration
  • Drug

• This was when we started taking it seriously, and found out about what hard, hard work really was. Mutt Lange at the helm at Battery studios in Willesden, London. Our first venture into video promo saw us featured on a new channel in America called MTV. The song from the album was "Bringin' on the Heartbreak". This album was slow to take off but a year after it's release it started to make waves in the U.S. Thanks to "Bringin'" on the MTV. The record is a favorite of mine.

  

  Rick Allen Def Leppard
  • Found
  • London
  • MTV

• This record is quite a bit more personal than the last record was.

  

  Adam Gontier Three Days Grace
  • Record
  • Personal

• I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Inspiration
  • Record
  • Postcards

• We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Songs
  • Desperate
  • Chords

• This time around was different. Daron brought a song in and we had to record it the next day. I just wasn't about it and I didn't do it perfectly. It took some time, or I wanted to play it a different way and the song had not been developed yet. I had to get it. It was more work-oriented and less about a vibe and art.

  

  Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen
  • Song
  • Next
  • Developed

• Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mistake
  • Record

• It has always been Cramer's strategy to place inventory at the core of the OSS, as opposed to providing a passive database of record. The power of inventory at the core means that we can use the inventory to drive the systematic integration of wider OSS functionality within one, converged platform.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Power
  • Strategy
  • Integration

• All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Artist
  • Record
  • Strive

• I like working together with different producers. Of course the process is different, producing a new track is like creating something all new, while reworking an already existing track is more like giving your own twist to the record.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Working
  • Track
  • Producers

• If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

  

  Bart Millard MercyMe
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Worshipful

• Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?

  

  Bart Millard MercyMe
  • Song
  • Change
  • Falsetto

• I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly... Real killers...no matter the industry or company geography.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Industry
  • Geography
  • Killers

• Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Write
  • Record

• Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Experience
  • Producer
  • Floyd

• You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • People
  • Hope
  • Enjoy

• The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Early

• We actually wrote the record in and out of Canada, where we live, in sort of cottage country. ... We were at a lake, around campfires, writing music.

  

  Adam Gontier Three Days Grace
  • Record
  • Canada
  • Wrote

• “I’d definitely be up for a trip to Mars. I’d love to record an album at zero gravity.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Album
  • Gravity
  • Trip To Mars

• “I just make music. — The music I make, I make for myself,” he continued, “I’m the number one guy for me to please.” He is not one to force a track into a specific genre and would never create a record with the intentions of critical reception. “Sometimes 10 million people love what I do, sometimes 500 do… I have massive hits with some tracks, and some other tracks have stayed in the underground.”

  

  Eric Prydz Swedish House Mafia
  • Music
  • Record
  • Hits

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