Records Quotes - Page 88

I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it's recorded.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.