Records Quotes

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

I've heard that Oasis or Coldplay will sell tickets, but they can't sell records. They sold out Madison Square Garden in three hours. And they can't sell albums. I don't know what's going on.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

She [Hillary Clinton] is actually got the track record for doing the crazy things that Donald Trump talks about.

We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

A proven leader always has a proven track record.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

The facts are facts and records are records.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.

I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

Just ask yourself what record you played over and over again when you were depressed or what record made you really happy? Those will never change and you should never be embarrassed by it.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books... I collect vintage vinyl records.