Record Quotes

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

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

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.