Records Quotes - Page 82

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

I think there's always been a myth that sailors brought in records in their knapsacks as if you could ... in the local shops. I think that maybe some songs did come in with the sailors and maybe they did whistle some of the things in the streets in sharp ears because.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

I have no clue what my stats are. Records are for after the season.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.

I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat. But to those who remain enthralled, it is a fabulous story of oustanding success and splendid achievement, by comparison with which Britain's 20th century records seems at best unimpressive, and often distinctly lacklustre.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.