Record Quotes · Page 30

You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be…

— Craig Finn

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

— Dick Dale

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by…

— Paul Shaffer

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

— Quincy Jones

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

— Vannevar Bush

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

— Robyn Hitchcock

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

— Stevie Jackson

I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs…

— Daymond John

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who…

— Seinabo Sey

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic,…

— Nellie McKay

I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And…

— Howie Mandel

Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to…

— Rachel Nichols

My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to…

— Ben Folds

It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three…

— Justin Vernon

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have…

— John Fahey

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain…

— Grandmaster Flash

In a record time of five-and-a-half months, we completed the prestigious Pattiseema irrigation project, linking two major rivers in the state.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.

— Michael Rapino

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to…

— Lyle Lovett

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple…

— Jesse Harris

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

— Jerry Harrison

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

— Richard Marx

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good…

— Trent Reznor

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

— Solomon Burke

I loved 'Nothing Was the Same' so much. For me, that was the first Drake record that I got into.

— David Longstreth

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I…

— Stevie Nicks

To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard…

— James Bay

They say that being humble leaves you out of the record books. I want to be in the record books.

— Danny Garcia

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

— George McGovern

I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen…

— Jimmy Iovine

Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that's what keeps me fired…

— Darius Rucker

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

— Ice T

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a…

— Milo Aukerman

Every time Usain Bolt competes we're all expecting him to run sub 10 seconds and record one of the fastest times in…

— Colin Jackson

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only…

— Arlo Guthrie

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

— Kevin Jonas

I think I've got a track record and an experience brief that I'll put up against anybody's.

— Charlie Baker

“Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.”

— Elizabeth George