Top 100 A Record Quotes
#1. I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.
Steve Earle
#2. Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
Michael Stipe
#3. Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.
Steve Earle
#4. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.
Wendy Davis
#5. [of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: 'I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.
Olivia Laing
#6. One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
Herbie Mann
#7. Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'
Michelle Branch
#8. Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
James Surowiecki
#9. Win likewise lifted his visor, gaze steady in return. 'My unofficial duties are another story. Real unofficial. I'd have a record that would make your father's look like docking violations if I ever got caught.
Marcha A. Fox
#10. I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.
James Wolpert
#11. Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Bennie Thompson
#12. People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?
Dada Bhagwan
#13. I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
Gloria Emerson
#14. TALLAHASSEE LASSIE was a record I wrote with my mom. A number of other famous groups have also recorded it such as Led Zeppelin (I understand they are currently touring) and several other English bands and also some various "Punk Bands".
Freddy Cannon
#15. I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
Martina Mcbride
#16. Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Nile Rodgers
#17. 3If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
Anonymous
#18. The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
Edmund Morgan
#19. What do you say we mark this day - the day we met - by buying each other a record? Something we think reflects our perceptions of each other.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#20. I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
John Lydon
#21. Consistency, say some, is the sign of a small mind, but it's a real virtue with high-power technology. Having lots of the same devices out in the field lets us compile a record of experience.
James R. Chiles
#22. I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.
Bonnie Raitt
#23. My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.
John Updike
#24. I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell
#25. I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.
Teena Marie
#26. I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
Frank Black
#27. I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.
Guy Picciotto
#28. If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
Duncan Sheik
#29. A record 449 million barrels of oil are being stored in the U.S. Shrinking storage capacity might lead to another drop in prices.
Anonymous
#30. How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?
Alexander Shulgin
#31. Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
Gary Allan
#32. I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.
Sonny Rollins
#33. I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.
Klaus Schulze
#34. The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
J. D. Souther
#35. Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
#36. You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
Yelawolf
#37. I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long.
Graham Nash
#38. When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
Questlove
#40. Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.
Greg Lake
#41. A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
Murray Kempton
#42. I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
Norah Jones
#43. Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.
Dizzy Dean
#44. I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.
Jon Bon Jovi
#45. Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
Brian Eno
#46. I do want people to know that, and I think it's important for everybody to understand I have a record, I have stood firm and I will be the person who prevents them from ever wrecking the economy again.
Hillary Clinton
#47. I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
Buzz Osborne
#48. I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great.
Sharon Van Etten
#49. Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'
Kanye West
#50. Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
Dan Auerbach
#51. I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
Jill Sobule
#52. I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
Yael Naim
#53. When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
Richie Sambora
#54. Guns' aka Luke Gunner had a record as long as my cock. Believe me, it was impressive." ~Lloyd Ledbetter
Eva LeNoir
#55. There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?
Ice-T
#56. Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
Steve Earle
#57. When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.
Jessica Simpson
#58. I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
Jamie Lawson
#59. Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.
Guy Pearce
#60. I feel the same way about every album. I think it's better than the one before. I have a strong feeling that you can't put out a record until you hate the last one you did because you have to make it better.
Jordan Buckley
#61. When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
John Deacon
#62. Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
Dave Grohl
#63. There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.
Andrew McMahon
#64. This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts.
Dave Barry
#65. Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
Dave Grohl
#66. My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.
Peter Blegvad
#67. If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.
Matt Corby
#68. My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!
Mick Rock
#69. The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
Fred Frith
#70. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.
Daphne Du Maurier
#71. Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
Gary Wright
#72. A piece of simple goodness
a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature
a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Douglas William Jerrold
#73. As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing
Jacob Bannon
#74. Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt
#75. Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
Chris Lowe
#76. I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk ... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans.
Cristian Machado
#77. I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.
James Mercer
#78. J. Ivy is a brilliant man with an incredible voice and a way with words. I've known him for over a decade and owe my stage name to him believing in me back then before I even had a record deal. I'm excited for him to share his truth with the world.
John Legend
#79. I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.
John Hiatt
#80. I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.
Taylor Swift
#81. While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.
Todd Rundgren
#82. I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.
Rob Halford
#83. What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
Thomas Pynchon
#84. I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
Alanis Morissette
#86. I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.
Brandi Carlile
#87. When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.
Brandon Boyd
#88. History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Ellsworth Huntington
#89. The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
Peter Tork
#90. My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Missy Elliott
#91. If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.
Moby
#92. The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
Tom Scholz
#93. It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
Shania Twain
#94. I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.
Charles B. Rangel
#95. Mulder had too brilliant a record to be dismissed as a loose cannon. His bosses had to find another way to protect their peace of mind. They did. They made Scully his partner.
Les Martin
#96. I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
Elton John
#97. If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.
Desmond Tutu
#98. If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
Barack Obama
#99. What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids.
Jamie Cullum
#100. It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
Andrew Bird
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