Records Quotes - Page 61

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record of declassified documents, and they are mostly concerned with keeping what the government does secret from its own population. It's mostly defense of the power system from its own population. Very little is authentic security.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

Just want to set the record straight. I'm single and I'm not going to get married!

We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.