Records Quotes - Page 19

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

I haven't ever really had a goal to break that record or catch John Wooden.

As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

I write the most sexiest records out.

Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'