Records Quotes

Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

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

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

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.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.