Records Quotes

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.

Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do."

Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.