Records Quotes

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

I think record companies are criminals.

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I Walk The Line was my third record.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.

I can record auditions from my office in my home

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.

When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.