Records Quotes

Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

Most great records really start with the drums.

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

literature is the record of our discontent.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I don't really make records chronologically.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

I've pretty much done records with everybody.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.