Records Quotes - Page 13

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

literature is the record of our discontent.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I waited, and I’m sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.

My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.