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. 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
#9. 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
#10. I'm always most comfortable in the studio. It's my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.
Nayvadius Cash
#11. 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
#12. Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking
Madonna Ciccone
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
Cheryl James
#17. 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
#18. I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
Norman Cook
#19. 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
#20. Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
Norah Jones
#21. I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
Moby
#22. 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
#23. I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
Kate Bush
#27. 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
#28. The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.
Roland Orzabal
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
Joe Walsh
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
Billy Joel
#38. When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.
Stevie Jackson
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. There's nothing like Nashville for making records.
Carol Channing
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.
Girl Talk
#55. What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
Will Oldham
#57. I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
Joan Jett
#59. We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Edie Brickell
#60. So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
Steve Forbert
#61. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
Moby
#62. I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.
Lykke Li
#63. I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
Ryan Adams
#64. I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
John Cale
#65. Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
Calvin Harris
#66. I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Sheryl Crow
#67. After you reach a certain age, they think you're over. Well, I will never be over. I'll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I've done that in my past, and I'd do it again.
Dolly Parton
#68. Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.
Jonathan Richman
#69. I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Jerry Harrison
#70. I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
Langhorne Slim
#71. If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
Kylie Minogue
#72. Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
Ann Wilson
#73. I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.
Dean Wareham
#74. I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'
Skrillex
#75. 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.
Master P
#76. I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.
Shelby Lynne
#77. As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.
Steve Albini
#78. You were out on tour, 75 cities in 80 days, and then making records on top of it.And they started calling us the Hollywood Vampires, because anybody only saw us at night.
Alice Cooper
#79. I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
Dolly Parton
#80. Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.
Pat Benatar
#81. I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
K.d. Lang
#82. It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.
Steve Forbert
#83. Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
James Young
#84. I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.
Vonda Shepard
#85. If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.
Paul Weller
#86. Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.
Mick Jagger
#87. I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.
Sean Combs
#88. I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
John Oates
#89. The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
John Lydon
#90. Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
Peter Noone
#91. I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
Emmylou Harris
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
Jeff Tweedy
#97. Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
Courtney Love
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian Eno
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