Records Quotes - Page 72

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

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I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

A proven leader always has a proven track record.

I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do that because it goes through different waves and sometimes you want to listen to something and at other times you want to listen to something else so I don't know.

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As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.