Records Quotes

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.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

I record all night and sleep all day.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

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

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

I write the most sexiest records out.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

I don't want to live on past records.

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

A poem is a record of a discovery.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.