Records Quotes:

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

- Aaron Neville

topic: Thanksgiving, Long, Records

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

- Aaron Neville

topic: Records, Just Listen

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Records, World, Break

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

- Ace Frehley

topic: Albums, Records, Helping

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

- Adam Ant

topic: Records, Decline, Company

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

topic: People, Three, Records

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

- Adam Clymer

topic: Gone, Records, Way, Putting Things Off

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

- Adam Duritz

topic: People, Lasts, Records

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

topic: Labels, Records, Pay, Record Labels

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

- Adam Rich

topic: Respect, Giving, Records, Dreamworks

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

- Adam Yauch

source: Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Records, Way, Strange

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

- Adele

topic: Awards, Gold, Records

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

- Adele

topic: Records, Figures, Rely

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Break Up, Sound, Records

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

- Afrika Bambaataa

topic: Rocks, Records, Bass, Freestyle

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "A Dancing Queen Extends Her Reign" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2013.

topic: Song, Trying, Records

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

topic: Band, Records, Singers

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

- Aimee Mann

topic: Important, Records, Care, Good Records

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

- Al Jarreau

topic: Fashion, People, Records

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Bottles, Records, Coke

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

- Alan Hansen

topic: Records, Bob, Paisley

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

- Alan Vega

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Records, Futuristic

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Agendas, Records

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Records, Way, My Favorite

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.

- Albie Sachs

topic: Relief, Scratches, Records

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Philosophy, Historical, Records, Personal Philosophy

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

- Alex Chilton

source: "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

topic: Records, Firsts, Flukes

It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Song, Records, Way

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

- Alex Lifeson

topic: Careers, Long, Records, Long Careers, Tow

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

- Alex North

topic: Friday, Tuesday, Records, Happy Friday

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

- Alex Van Halen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Records

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

- Alexander Downer

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Records, Matter, Public Interest, Allegations

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

- Alexandra Patsavas

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: Thinking, Important, Records, Supervisors, Supervision

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

- Alexis Korner

topic: Play, Important, Records

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Inspiration, Majority, Records

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation

topic: Suffering, Records, Distress, Family Bible

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

- Alison Krauss

source: "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

topic: Decision, Sound, Records

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

- Allen Weinstein

topic: Reality, Goal, Records, Launching

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

- Allen Weinstein

topic: People, Roles, Records, Saga, Archivists

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

- Allen Weinstein

topic: Attention, Records, World, Insufficient, Civics

To those people (who criticize me), get off your ***** and make a record.

- Amanda Marshall

topic: People, Records, Criticize

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Song, Albums, Records

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

- Amanda Plummer

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: College, Stories, Records

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

- Amber Heard

topic: Home, Player, Records, Old Records, Record Players

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

- Amos Lee

topic: Media, Records, Interest

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

- Amy Grant

topic: Years, Records, Answers

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

- Anais Nin

topic: Writing, Records, Needed

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Play, Records, Disappear

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Records, Release

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: House, Bars, Records

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

- Andy Partridge

topic: Hands, Records, Matter, Initials

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

- Andy Summers

source: Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Thinking, People, Records, New Era

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

- Andy Summers

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Records

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

- Andy Summers

topic: Play, Records, Paint, Crossings, Crossing Over

My track record is pretty good on predictions.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Track, Records, Predictions, Track Record

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

- Ann Wilson

topic: Music, Energy, Records

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

- Ann Wilson

topic: Years, Done, Records

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

- Anna Lindh

topic: Records, Development, Economic, Economic Development, Good Governance

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

- Anna Seward

topic: Records, Failing, Tenderness

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

- Anni-Frid Lyngstad

topic: Records, Failing

Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

- Anthony Anderson

topic: Departed, Records, Goes On, Scorsese

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Imagination, Records, Language

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

- Anton Corbijn

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cds, Records, Feels

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

source: "Life of Pitt" by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1891.

topic: Photography, Silence, Records, Electrical

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

topic: Names, Trying, Records

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

topic: Space, Band, Records

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Records, Election, Bleak

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspiring, Achievement, Records

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

- Art Garfunkel

source: Interview with Paul Zollo for The Song Talk, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

topic: Song, Records, Demand, Emerging

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Years, Records, Way

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

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Records, Dry, Bigs

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

- Arthur Danto

topic: Reality, Magazines, Records, Magazine Covers

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

- Arthur Fogel

topic: Vortex, Records, Kind, Live Performance

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Records, World, Memoir

I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Self, Rejection, Records, Rejection Letters, World Records

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

- Asif Ali Zardari

topic: Records, Behinds

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: People, Six, Records

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

- Babyface

topic: Records, Produce, Continuing

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Records, Earth, Facts

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Differences, Would Be, Records, World Records, Business Partners

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Holiday, Records, Listening To Music

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Writing, Tape, Records

I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

- Barry Bonds

topic: Thinking, Worry, Records

They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

- Barry Davies

topic: Football, Records, Legs, Unbeaten

I don't want to live on past records.

- Barry Gibb

topic: Past, Records, Want

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

- Barry Gibb

topic: Song, Writing, Records, Writing Songs

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

- Barry Gibb

topic: Night, Sound, Records

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

- Barry Gibb

topic: Records, Care, Want

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

- Barry Lyga

source: Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Feelings, Twenties, Records

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

- Barry Mann

topic: Records, Should, Producers

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

- Beck

topic: Trying, Records

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

- Ben E. King

topic: Fun, Crowns, Records, Drifters

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

- Ben Gibbard

topic: Records, God Knows

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

- Ben Harper

topic: Sound, Records, Made

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.

- Ben Harper

topic: Song, Band, Records

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

- Ben Harper

topic: House, Records, Bass, Harper, Drum And Bass

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

- Benmont Tench

topic: Trying, Band, Records

We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

- Bert McCracken

source: "Band to Unleash New Album - 'Lies For The Liars' - on Reprise Records May 22nd and Join the Warped Tour for Select Dates This Summer". Market Wire (Associated Press), May 03, 2007.

topic: Running, Ideas, Records

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

- Bert McCracken

topic: Different, Records, Rooms, Headphones

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

- Big Boi

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Wise, Goal, Records

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

topic: Sports, Running, Records

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Records, Earth, Left Behind

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

- Bill Nye

topic: Past, People, Records, Past And Present

You are what your record says you are.

- Bill Parcells

source: Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.454, Crown Archetype

topic: Records

I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.

- Bill Shorten

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Agreement, People, Records, Negotiating

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

- Bill Wyman

topic: Records, Firsts

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

- Bill Wyman

topic: People, Records, Firsts

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

- Billie Holiday

source: record it. 1956 Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.

topic: Fighting, People, Records

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

- Billy Bragg

topic: Political, Band, Records

Most great records really start with the drums.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Records

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

- Billy Davies

topic: Track, Trying, Records

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

- Billy Eckstine

topic: Kids, People, Records

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

- Billy Gibbons

topic: Hurt, Water, Records, Dishwashers

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

- Billy Joel

topic: Creative, Records, Outlets

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

- Bjork

topic: Thinking, Perfect, Records, Slick

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.

- Black Francis

topic: Musician, Records, Want, Record Companies

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.

- Black Francis

source: Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.

topic: Trying, Records, Way, Pixies

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

- Black Francis

topic: Age, Musician, Records

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

- Blake Shelton

topic: Records, Enough

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

- Bo Bice

source: "'American Idol' vets Bo Brice, constantine Maroulis can't stop rocking'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.

topic: Records, Firsts

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

- Bo Gritz

topic: Missing You, Believe, Records, Pow

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

- Bob Barr

topic: Office, President, Records

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

- Bob Brown

topic: Google, Endurance, Records, World Records, Guinness

Stop telling the truth about my record!

- Bob Dole

topic: Presidential, Records, Telling The Truth

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

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, Sound, Records

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

- Bob Uecker

topic: Sports, Records, Facts

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.

- Bobby Vinton

topic: Dollars, Video, Records

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

- Bobby Vinton

topic: Rocks, Jail, Records

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

- Bobby Vinton

topic: Teenager, Adults, Records

I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.

- Bonnie Tyler

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Records, Bigs

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

- Bonnie Tyler

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Different, Records

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

- Bonnie Tyler

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Albums, Records, Release, Old Records

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

- Boy George

topic: Boys, People, Records, Good Records

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

- Boy George

topic: Records, Obvious

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

- Boz Scaggs

topic: Thinking, Artist, Records

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

- Brandi Carlile

topic: Song, Sitting, Records

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

- Branford Marsalis

topic: Song, Tin, Records, Alleys, Tin Pan Alley

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

- Branford Marsalis

topic: Artist, Sound, Records

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

- Brantley Gilbert

topic: Thinking, Records, Influence

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

- Bret Bielema

topic: Michigan, Records, States, Michigan State

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

- Brian Eno

topic: Historical, Records, Kind

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

- Brian Eno

topic: Ideas, Records, Singers, Foreground

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

- Brian Eno

topic: Long, Labyrinth, Records

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

- Brian Lamb

topic: Bird, Tweety Bird, Records, Fetish

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

topic: Writing, Writing Music, Records

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

- Brian Molko

topic: Two, Records, Taste

McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Needs, Records, Kick Ass, Rockabilly

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Thinking, Done, Records, Recording Studio

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

- Brian Setzer

topic: People, Guy, Records

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

- Brian Wilson

topic: Voice, People, Records, Favourite Things

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

- Britney Spears

topic: Song, Records, Sparks

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

- Brody Dalle

topic: Playing Music, Records, Lasts

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

- Brody Dalle

topic: Play, Records, Goes On

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

- Brooks Robinson

topic: Play, Mind, Records

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

- Bruce McCulloch

topic: People, Band, Records

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Airplane, Band, Records

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Records, Great Beatles

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Awards, Records, Spotlight

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Records, Waikiki, Company

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

- Bryan Clay

topic: Needs, Records, World, World Records

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Records, Bros

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

- Busta Rhymes

topic: Hair, Records, Growing

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Kindness, Records, Definitions

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Discovery, Cooking, Records

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

- Cameron Diaz

topic: Records, Want, Rooms

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Army, College, Records, Beavers, Banner

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

- Candy Crowley

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Records

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Records, Tickets, Driving, Speeding Tickets, Speeding

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

- Carl Lewis

topic: Running, Winning, Records

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

- Carla Bley

topic: Teacher, Records, Jazz, Pianist, Absorbing

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Rights, Iraq, Records, Abu Ghraib, Violation Of Human Rights

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

- Carlos Slim

topic: Business, Issues, Records, Building A Business

Theres nothing like Nashville for making records.

- Carol Channing

topic: Nashville, Records

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

- Carson Daly

topic: Records, Film, Company

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

- Cat Power

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Done, Records

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

- Cat Power

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Albums, Records

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

- Celine Dion

topic: Song, Records, Way

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

- Celine Dion

topic: Two, Gold, Records, Platinum

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

- Chad Smith

topic: Records, Causes, Sometimes

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

topic: Awards, Numbers, Records

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

topic: Records, Influence, Rich

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!

- Charice Pempengco

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Band, Records, Imitation, Miley

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

- Charles Babbage

topic: Wish, Deceit, Records, Forging

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Records, Fossils, Changed

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Museums, Imperfection, Records, Intervals

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Confusion, Let It Go, Records, Commonality

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

- Charles Fort

topic: Science, Records, Amusement, History Of Science

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

- Charles Francis Richter

source: Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1980.

topic: Earthquakes, Records, Vibrations, Acceleration, Frequency

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

- Charles Kennedy

topic: Thinking, Age, Records, Briefing

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

- Charles Portis

source: Charles Portis (1999). “Norwood”, p.77, The Overlook Press

topic: Night, Play, Records, Trailers

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

- Charles Rangel

topic: Campaigns, Records, Proud

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christmas, Records, World, World Records, Christian Christmas

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

- Charles Webster Leadbeater

source: Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “The Masters and the Path”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Life, Taken, Records, Divine Life

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

- Charley Pride

topic: Artist, Years, Records

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

- Charley Pride

topic: Rocks, Atlanta, Records, Little Rock, Good Records

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

- Charlie Haden

source: "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

topic: Song, Done, Records, Showcase, Great American

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

- Charlie Hunter

topic: White, Stripes, Records, White Stripes

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

- Charlie Rich

topic: Country, Appreciate, Records, Drastic, Drastic Change

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

- Charlie Watts

topic: Play, Trying, Records

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

- Cheech Marin

topic: Needs, Records, Return