Records Quotes

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

A lot of reasons I didn't do records with people is because I never wanted their light to reflect on me.

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

I'm a walking record.

I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.