Records Quotes

Once you got three records, you pretty much got 10.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

You're only as good as your last record.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

I think people will be surprised at how fast they go next year. I do think world records will get broken next year.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On