Records Quotes

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

The actual making of the records obviously have everything to do with each other, because I made them one day after the other, alternating doing it.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

I'm not a very social person. I'm interested in music and I'm obviously tight with my family - my daughter. I'm not at the club hanging out at night. I'm at home making records.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

I never really got into any records purely thinking of them as a breakup record. I mean, honestly, for me, listening to a breakup record whilst dealing with one seems counterproductive!

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

Records are made to be broken.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.