Records Quotes - Page 40

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

You're only as good as your last record.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.