Records Quotes

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

[Donald Trump] has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.