Record Quotes

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.