A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.
Everybody recommended me to Sinatra and Don Costa, because everybody was enjoying my music. I got a big following going on. Nino (Tempo) told Don Costa "you gotta come see this guy." And that's how Don Costa heard about me, through Nino Tempo. Then, Don Costa brought me to the attention of Frank Sinatra and Reprise Records.
I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that Id like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.
I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.
I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.
My profession is called record production.