Records Quotes

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

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.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

Records are there to be broken.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.