Records Quotes

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

My account is paid up. Your records are wrong.

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

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So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

Records don't have to be perfect.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

I can really only can record at home.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

All records are not made to be broken.

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.