Records Quotes · Page 44

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

— Neko Case

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

— James Mercer

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

— Pink

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own…

— Anonymous

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was…

— Chino Moreno

I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

— Britney Spears

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

— David Byrne

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's…

— Robert Plant

For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

— Clara

I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to…

— Jo Dee Messina

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll…

— Jon Secada

The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always…

— Big Boi

For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did…

— Gary Gulman

Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and…

— Kathy Mattea

We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any…

— Jack Welch

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have…

— Rita Coolidge

We are letting people into America that are going to cause problems and crime like you've never seen. We're also letting drugs…

— Donald Trump

The next film I have is called Miles Ahead, which is about Miles Davis, during a five-year period in his life during…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks…

— Brian Eno

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in…

— Bonnie Raitt

These past years have been really transitional for me in every aspect - personally, emotionally and professionally. I was excited and nervous…

— Selena Gomez

... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an…

— Francis Maitland Balfour

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or…

— A.J. Ayer

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing…

— Jamie Foxx

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

— Scott Hutchison

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I…

— Rudyard Kipling

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

— Mel Bochner

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they…

— Chuck D

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

— Andrew Bird

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

— Norah Jones

Im one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry arent behind us. Theyre actually ahead of…

— L.A. Reid

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

— Kenny Chesney

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to…

— Bonnie Raitt

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

— Peter Tosh

“We all have horrible track records,” he said. “It’s what leads up to the real thing. It’s what allows you to recognize…

— Jill Shalvis

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

— Brantley Gilbert

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think…

— Robyn Hitchcock

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

— Elvis Costello

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

— Wanda Jackson