Records Quotes

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.

I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.

I can't stand too long of a record.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

Yes, and for the record, he thinks you’re insane, too. (Otto) Oh, goodie. But I guess that’s only fair since I think he’s psychotic. (Susan)

For the record, we’re not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don’t care. (Savitar)

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

Not everybody is gonna like every track on my record ever!

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

If there were Satan, I would gladly sell my soul to him to prevent Sting from making another record.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Nobody should put out a record before they know what the street thinks.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.