Records Quotes - Page 21

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

A record is a message, timeless.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.