Records Quotes

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.

If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that's right now.

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.

The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.