Top 100 Making Records Quotes
#1. I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry Gibb
#2. I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.
Doseone
#3. I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem
#4. To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
Chino Moreno
#5. A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
Francesca Woodman
#6. I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.
Scott Weiland
#7. It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's kind of great for me 'cause that's all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting.
Mark Ronson
#8. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.
Joel Plaskett
#9. I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
John Darnielle
#10. That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.
Gin Wigmore
#11. Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.
Jesse Harris
#12. I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
Mark Ronson
#13. I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.
Nayvadius Cash
#14. When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno
#15. I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
Jeff Tweedy
#16. Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
Courtney Love
#17. Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
Scott Weiland
#18. Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking
Madonna Ciccone
#19. I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.
John Mayer
#20. I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.
Ray Stevens
#21. I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
Madonna Ciccone
#22. Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
Cheryl James
#23. Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
Kaskade
#24. I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
Katy B
#25. I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
Norman Cook
#26. People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.
Dr. Dre
#27. I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian Eno
#28. Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.
Edward Snowden
#29. They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?
Dee Dee Warwick
#30. Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.
Murray Horwitz
#31. Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
Norah Jones
#32. I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.
Bill Shorten
#33. I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
Moby
#34. I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Keith Richards
#35. I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle
#36. As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.
Virginia Postrel
#37. The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.
Ariel Rechtshaid
#38. People are so ... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.
Elliott Smith
#39. I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
George Benson
#40. 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.
Shelby Lynne
#41. Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
Kate Bush
#42. 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.
Master P
#43. The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.
Roland Orzabal
#44. Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush
Quincy Jones
#45. There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.
Moby
#46. 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.
Steven Van Zandt
#48. We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
Victoria Legrand
#49. I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas ... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.
M. Ward
#50. 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.
Shelby Lynne
#51. I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
Ben Gibbard
#52. When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture.
Courtney Barnett
#53. A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.
Nicki Minaj
#54. I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
Joe Walsh
#55. I wouldn't say I'm underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I've been good so far in being consistent and making hit after hit writing for myself and other artists, from rap to R&B, and being able to make those different records.
Nayvadius Cash
#56. A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.
John Lennon
#57. My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
Clive Davis
#58. Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
Billy Joel
#59. When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.
Stevie Jackson
#60. Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'
affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.
Banksy
#61. If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.
Bernie Sanders
#62. It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen ... Fleetwood Mac ... I mean, that's all so inherent in us that when we're making records now, we take a lot from the artists who are around us.
Jack Antonoff
#63. I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.
Patti Smith
#64. Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.
John Mellencamp
#65. I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.
Michael Stipe
#66. Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
Serj Tankian
#67. Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
Marvin Hamlisch
#68. As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.
Sinead O'Connor
#69. Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
Patrick Stump
#70. Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
Gus Van Sant
#71. Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
Tony Visconti
#72. I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.
Andrew Bird
#73. I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.
Tim McGraw
#74. Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.
Bruce Johnston
#75. There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
Ty Segall
#76. In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.
Zooey Deschanel
#77. Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.
Wale
#78. If there were Satan, I would gladly sell my soul to him to prevent Sting from making another record.
Stephen Bier Jr.
#79. There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
Carol Channing
#80. I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.
Andrew Ripp
#81. There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
M. Ward
#82. There are only two types of content of any value online: conversation, and the things about which the conversation takes place. Stop making Electric Age media - start doing Digital Age stuff. Stop making records, start having conversations.
Anonymous
#83. I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#84. I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.
Elton John
#85. There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
Henry Jackman
#86. I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.
A.C. Newman
#87. If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?
DJ Shadow
#88. That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.
Joel Plaskett
#89. I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
Robbie Robertson
#90. I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.
Five For Fighting
#91. When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
Sarah Brightman
#92. A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
Boy George
#93. Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.
Tupac Shakur
#94. When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.
Jason Lytle
#95. When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."
Neko Case
#96. I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
Boy George
#97. 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.
Snoop Dogg
#98. As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
Kool Keith
#99. I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
Michelle Branch
#100. Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.
Jon Landau
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