Records Quotes · Page 225

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I've set no world record.

— Marion Jones

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

— Neil Young

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…

— John Stuart Mill

Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it…

— Jack White

I'm a businessman not a criminal. I make records and I'm not into that game.

— Mark Morrison

Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?

— Mandy Moore

I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because…

— John Otway

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because…

— Olly Murs

I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking…

— Don Cheadle

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner -…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One…

— Olivia Newton-John

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

— Mel Torme

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want…

— Steve Earle

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to…

— Augusten Burroughs

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

— Dimebag Darrell

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when…

— Doug Collins

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With…

— Kate Bush

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the…

— Enrique Iglesias

Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an…

— Jim Butcher

I competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.

— PartyNextDoor

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will…

— Dave Grohl

I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I…

— Simon Cowell

Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio…

— Robin Guthrie

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put…

— Shanice