Record Quotes

#1. I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

Steve Albini

#2. I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Andy Summers

#3. When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

Janelle Monae

#4. Stay out of my mind. You certainly weren't invited.' Her hands went to her hips. 'And just for the record, your mind needs to be washed out with soap! Half the things you think we're going to do are never going to happen. I could never look at you again.

Christine Feehan

#5. For the record, I thought you were untouchable. But now that I know you think I'm a hot, sexy, Mexican god . .

Simone Elkeles

#6. In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

Sam Harris

#7. Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
Let no one forget about the hard part.

MC Serch

#8. Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

George Papandreou

#9. There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

Tom Jenkinson

#10. People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Adam Ant

#11. The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.

David Gill

#12. So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

James Iha

#13. I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

Douglas Brinkley

#14. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

Pete Rose

#15. There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

Stevie Jackson

#16. I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.

Zooey Deschanel

#17. I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Evan Dando

#18. Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

Adam Mansbach

#19. I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

Paul Simon

#20. I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

Al Jarreau

#21. You're all like black boxes here," he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we're living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we're just recording information!

Svetlana Alexievich

#22. The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

Linda Ronstadt

#23. No sausage? he asked.
Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

Maureen Johnson

#24. I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

Aimee Mullins

#25. Making every record is a process full of tough times.

Ezra Koenig

#26. This has been a record breaking month for book sales for Mikazuki Publishing House. The moon can only stay hidden behind the cloud for so long. Eventually the cloud moves away and the moon can light up the darkness with its magnificence.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#27. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

Frank Black

#28. I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.

Kevin Fowler

#29. 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.

Bob Marley

#30. I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

Steve Vai

#31. They record thoughts and overheard conversations, as well as maps of their personal paths, phone numbers for hotels, restaurant recommendations, airline flight numbers. Eventually,

Danny Gregory

#32. I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

Adam Yauch

#33. I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.

Zachary Cole Smith

#34. Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.

Kathleen Hanna

#35. I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

Lana Del Rey

#36. The record industry is a world within itself.

Edwin Starr

#37. This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.

Donald Trump

#38. I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

#39. Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

Curtis Jackson

#40. At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19 ... and it was devastating.

Katy Perry

#41. I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

Volker Bertelmann

#42. The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work!

Rory Kinnear

#43. When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

David Coverdale

#44. I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.

Doris Day

#45. What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

Ty Segall

#46. To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

Robbie Williams

#47. People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.

Brad Delson

#48. I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

Jeff Tweedy

#49. So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

Chris Martin

#50. The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

Paul Robeson

#51. We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

Julian Fantino

#52. I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth
how well you are really doing. This is the secret set
just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

Helen Gurley Brown

#53. Image of an image of an image ... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score.

Susan Sontag

#54. I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Don Henley

#55. The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

Avril Lavigne

#56. Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Jay Carney

#57. It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

Joe Nichols

#58. Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

Paul Weller

#59. 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.

Chris Thile

#60. I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Brian McKnight

#61. We dance for the pure joy of it. In the kitchen to the record player. Because we've got it in us. All over ... it's not just in the legs. It comes from inside and runs all through you. In waves. From down below to up above. All the way to the scalp.

Gunter Grass

#62. DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Ambrose Bierce

#63. Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#64. It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

John Zorn

#65. I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

Jay Reatard

#66. When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

Jim Rohn

#67. One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record ... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

Imre Lakatos

#68. When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

Carl Lewis

#69. I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

Conor Oberst

#70. In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

Anne Robinson

#71. I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.

Ben Folds

#72. It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

Evan Parker

#73. I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

Nicki Chapman

#74. The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

David Rudisha

#75. I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

Bill Bowerman

#76. I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.

Steve Stoute

#77. I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

Jerry Cantrell

#78. Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

Bob Dylan

#79. I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

Phil Anselmo

#80. The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

John French Sloan

#81. I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

Patsy Cline

#82. I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down ... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

Ellie Goulding

#83. I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move on with my life.

Howie Mandel

#84. You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.

Elijah Wood

#85. The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

Elizabeth Edwards

#86. As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

Bridget Kelly

#87. To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

Billie Joe Armstrong

#88. So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you ... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Adam Rich

#89. After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

Stacey King

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

Chris Lowe

#91. Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.

Olly Murs

#92. But literature, the best of it, does not aim to be literature. It wants and strives, beyond that artifact part of itself, to be a true part of the composite human record - that is, not words but a reality.

Mary Oliver

#93. The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Curtis Jackson

#94. No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

Jackie DeShannon

#95. The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Charley Pride

#96. I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

Dylan Thomas

#97. We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

Buzz Osborne

#98. I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Brian May

#99. If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Stella McCartney

#100. Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

Hannah Arendt