Records Quotes - Page 37

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

I have heard a lot of stories - we're putting this in for the monitors, we've got this other set of records. This is a relatively new field, but they're getting better. They're getting more resources from the companies. At some point the factories say, okay, this is here to stay.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.

I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it.

The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is to tour, and then you're revisiting history. Maybe it's better to leave it, if you see what I mean.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.