Records Quotes - Page 91

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

I don't play for records.

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.