Records Quotes - Page 65

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.

You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.

You know, it's weird. It's - it hasn't really changed my life in any kind of way that I can measure. I mean, it's obviously such an insanely amazing thing. You know, none of my other records I've ever had before even broke into the top 100.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

I've set no world record.

I definitely see myself making classic R&B records with somewhat of a trendy vibe to it. I definitely wouldn't say trap.

You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.