Record Quotes
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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
Sarah Vaughan -
If you don’t make a great record that really touches people, what is the point?
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane -
I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.
Butch Vig Garbage -
Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I want to personally thank all the participants in this outing for providing a record amount of support to benefit children in need.
Bob Kaufman -
I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.
Aaron Watson
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Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!
Kerry King Slayer -
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
Phil Anselmo Pantera -
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Yeah, and everybody who moves out to L.A. gets that Hollywood thing in their blood, and their second record always sounds like shit.And if we end up there,we take it back. --On Fame
Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects -
Just give me a record. You give me a guitar, I'll probably hit a ball with it.
Ilie Nastase -
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
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I'd rather go to the playoffs than not go, even with a losing record. Because once you get there, you never know.
Allen Iverson -
I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
Will Sheff Okkervil River -
We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
I think it was a pretty cut ad dried draw. We've got about as good a situation as we could, given or record. Hopefully we can keep playing well and surprise a couple of people.
Chris Smith -
It's the worst feeling, going into your record label when you haven't got a hit. It was like: 'Maybe you've lost it.' And, once you're done, that's it. There's no support, or anyone to help you.
Jonas Blue -
I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele -
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
Denise Levertov -
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
George Bernard Shaw -
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
Rudyard Kipling