Record Quotes

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

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

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

I can record auditions from my office in my home.