Records Quotes · Page 46

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records…

— Ezra Furman

I want to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga. But I'm not someone who always thinks about records. It's not my…

— Erling Haaland

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created…

— Craig Kilborn

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

— Voltaire

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

— Mika

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling…

— Paul Vixie

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down…

— Lauren Fleshman

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers…

— David Knopfler

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which…

— Marcel Proust

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has…

— Brewster Kahle

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who…

— Bill Mumy

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to…

— Brian Eno

That's a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I'm blessed…

— Drake

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't…

— M. Ward

I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to…

— Michael Angelo Batio

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the…

— Bernie Sanders

I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the…

— Richard Branson

I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first…

— Marguerite Rawalt

If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about…

— Donald Trump

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my…

— Clay Aiken

The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

— Aretha Franklin

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and…

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

— Duncan Sheik

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

— John Cale

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It…

— Huey Lewis

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's…

— Kristin Chenoweth

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my…

— Enrique Iglesias

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the…

— Elton John

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new…

— Bruce Hornsby

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come…

— Edward Abbey

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to…

— Huey Lewis

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

— Philippe Petit

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

— Sarah Vowell

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did…

— Dick Van Dyke

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

— Beck

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

— Renee Fleming