Records Quotes - Page 25

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

No - not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal - to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.