Record Quotes

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.

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

The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

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

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.