Records Quotes · Page 106

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

— Jessica Simpson

People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and…

— Jeff Martin

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as…

— Duffy

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

— Ian MacKaye

I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.

— Devendra Banhart

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

— Tori Amos

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

— Richard Branson

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to…

— Jordan Buckley

After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates…

— Melissa Breen

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records…

— Moby

Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways…

— Ryan Adams

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize,…

— Jessica Simpson

Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result,…

— Fabio Capello

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished,…

— Bill Laswell

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a…

— Charlie Munger

Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal,…

— Rand Paul

I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going…

— Marco Rubio

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form,…

— Paul Strand

As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human…

— John Gibson Paton

There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on…

— Bob Dylan

There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter,…

— Wendy Starland

“They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement…

— Lester Bangs

When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly…

— Will Oldham

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

— Hank Williams III

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

— Mos Def

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense -…

— Mike Patton

Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

— Lights

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

— Duncan Sheik

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

— Joe Walsh

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

— Stephen Malkmus

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

— Don Henley

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

— Christopher Cross

New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil…

— Jill Stein

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite…

— Siobhan Fahey

Over 80 million records sold and I ain't got to do it with ten or eleven year olds.

— Dr Dre

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

— Rob Halford

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

— Thomas Lansing Masson