Records Quotes

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

A record is a message, timeless.

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.

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.