Quotes and Sayings About Records
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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 -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen
-- Aaron Neville -
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
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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 -
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
-- Adam Ant -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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 YauchSource : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 -
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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 -
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.
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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 FaltskogSource : "A Dancing Queen Extends Her Reign" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2013.
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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
-- Agnetha FaltskogSource : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.
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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 -
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 -
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
-- Al Yankovic -
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I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!
-- Alan Hansen -
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 -
It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
-- Albie Sachs -
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
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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 ChiltonSource : "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
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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 -
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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 -
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