Records Quotes · Page 116

Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up…

— Bernie Finkelstein

They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two…

— Ramsey Lewis

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,…

— Charles Babbage

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them…

— George Carlin

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

— Pat Benatar

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

— Norah Jones

I think Joe Biden made correct decision for him and his family. Personally,I would rather run agianst Hillary [Clinton] because her record…

— Donald Trump

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

— Marc Almond

I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

— Craig Finn

Let's face it - negativity sells records.

— Taboo

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an…

— Katy Perry

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

— Dave Grohl

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you…

— Aimee Mullins

Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to…

— Michael Kosser

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society,…

— David Amram

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a…

— Coco Chanel

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that…

— Jason Aldean

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's…

— Margaret Mead

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

— Leslie West

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record…

— Elton John

People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't…

— Joss Stone

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

— Elton John

I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

— Jerry Wexler

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

— Neil Gaiman

Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they…

— Tony Visconti

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in…

— Tommy Lee

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and…

— Rahki

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music.…

— Freddie Hubbard

Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.

— Emmitt Smith

There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

— Isaac Hanson

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records…

— Al Green

Making records is hard work.

— Eric Carmen

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain…

— Kim Wilde

I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good…

— Ahmet Ertegun

You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the…

— Joe Budden

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until…

— Jimmy Chamberlin