Records Quotes

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.

I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

I have a relatively good track record.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

I’ve got no criminal record.

I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.