Records Quotes

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

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?

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

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.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.