Records Quotes - Page 81

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

[Jack Johnson] really helped me make the record, put it out, and then let me tour with him for two years. He really helped me out.

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.

For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.

With the press there is no "off the record.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.

You're only as good as your record collection.