Records Quotes

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

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.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

My goal was never to sell many records.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

The last two records I liked playing a lot.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.