Records Quotes

My track record is pretty good on predictions.

We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

I also like different records of mine for creative purposes and metaphorically wise.

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.

We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.