Records Quotes - Page 18

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

Yeah, the record for most titles was previously held by the Fabulous Moolah, she won it four times. And a few weeks ago, I won the title for the sixth time, which has never been done before.

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

A poem is a record of a discovery.

In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'.

I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

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.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.