Record Quotes

• Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Freedom
  • Understood
  • Trends

• I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Record
  • Afford
  • Bootlegging

• After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Sleep
  • Journey
  • My Life

• I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Remember
  • Rock N Roll
  • Date Stamp

• I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

  

  Jules Shear
  • Record
  • Involved
  • Disposal

• Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Enough
  • Record
  • Waves

• After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Child
  • Record
  • Since

• I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Focus
  • Record
  • Lazy Guy

• Kenny and I, and I'm very glad we did this, decided that if we were going to work together we weren't going to complicate it by letting management push us into putting out a new record

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Management
  • Record

• I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Record
  • Tour

• It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

  

  James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
  • Fans
  • Record
  • Companies

• A record deal is my dream.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Record
  • Deal
  • My Dream

• At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Song
  • Band
  • Publish

• Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

  

  Alex Van Halen Van Halen
  • Record
  • Set Out

• I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

  

  James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
  • Band
  • Record
  • Performance

• I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • My Mind
  • Difficult Time
  • Bulimia

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Songs

• No - not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal - to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

  

  David Eugene Edwards
  • Ideas
  • Goal
  • Able

• It would've made more sense had we brought another record out between this one and the last one. If you paid close attention, the b-sides, like "Lucky" and "Talk Show Host" have documented that passage.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Attention
  • Record
  • Passage

• If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Record
  • Collection
  • Van Halen

• I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Record
  • Baby`s Got A Temper
  • The Prodigy

• Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Changes
  • Evidence
  • Population

• I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Voice
  • Different Things
  • Experimenting

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