Record Quotes

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

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.

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

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

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.