Records Quotes - Page 89

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.

Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

More recently I've come to terms with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. That's why you start to see me recoiling from 'let's put out radio records, let's get rich and get on out of here.' I have gone towards more speaking to kids and putting out records that I like.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.