Record Quotes

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.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

I didn't have a record player.

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

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.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

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.

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.