Records Quotes

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

We learn from failure, not from success!

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

I don't want records. I want a Super Bowl ring.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

The ultimate goal is to always break records.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don't even sing on their own records and who don't sing live. And that is pathetic.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.