Records Quotes

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

Record the album after the tour.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up.

We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

I didn't have a record player.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.