Records Quotes - Page 35

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

Ultimately, these fans that we're blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that's the bread and butter. That's the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it's been about.

I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.