Records Quotes - Page 20

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

I record all night and sleep all day.

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.