Records Quotes

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

I don't play for records.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it. And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires 'cause anybody only saw us at night.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other times I listen to it and I give myself a pat on the back.