I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and…

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

— Douglas Coupland

Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

— William P. Merrill

I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

— Donald Trump

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

— Jeff Tweedy

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

— Andrew Bird

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy…

— Katherine Jenkins

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

— Mac Miller

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

— Chen Guangbiao

I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.

— Devendra Banhart

The last thing you want to see is your record sit on a shelf.

— Uncle Kracker

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

— Martin Parr

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

— Cole Swindell

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

— Janet Malcolm

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like…

— Steve Winwood

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of…

— Toby Keith