Record Quotes · Page 34

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them…

— Cole Swindell

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

— Thomas Mars

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

Missing You' almost didn't get on the No Brakes' album, because the record company said, 'The album's finished. We don't need any…

— John Waite

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

— Patti Smith

Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.

— Mase

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

— Bill Callahan

I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully…

— Clinton Sparks

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them.…

— Christine Quinn

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then…

— Kaskade

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had…

— Jonny Lang

I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then…

— Grandmaster Flash

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love…

— George Benson

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to…

— Ronnie Wood

Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your…

— Shura

If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget…

— Les Claypool

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

— Bryan Clay

'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us…

— Matt Berninger

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just…

— Christine Lavin

I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The…

— Yael Naim

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

— Kurt Vile

When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

— Brian Littrell

I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.

— Kris Kristofferson

When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three…

— Judit Polgar

“I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.”

— Chloe Hooper

No record belongs to just one person, and there are no number ones outside of a group.

— Gianluigi Buffon

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover…

— Ariel Pink

“No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record-as a blessing or a curse.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good.…

— Taylor Swift

My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.

— James Murphy

That's the life, really, isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

— Rob Halford

Of course, I want to try and overtake the record of goals scored in European cups with the Rossoneri shirt.

— Filippo Inzaghi

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

— Estelle

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records…

— Ray Stevens

It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner…

— Martin Gore

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound…

— Bethany Cosentino

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

— Barry White

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

— Paul Simon

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something…

— Steve Young

I was the youngest producer to have a No. 1 record when Kris Kross first came out, and that was a record…

— Jermaine Dupri