Records Quotes - Page 51

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.

We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?