Records Quotes - Page 5

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

I don't want records. I want a Super Bowl ring.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.

The ultimate goal is to always break records.

The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.