Records Quotes - Page 36

I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.