Records Quotes · Page 49

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

— Dimebag Darrell

There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not…

— Chris Matthews

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

— John Oates

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have…

— Noureddine Morceli

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

— Shane McAnally

Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there…

— Ty Segall

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun…

— James Taylor

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

— Adam Cohen

I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version…

— Brad Pitt

I think the fun thing about doing a project under your own name is that literally anything could be a follow up,…

— Frank Iero

You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the…

— Mark Ronson

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good…

— Ariel Pink

[Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international…

— Michael Owen

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will…

— Michael Pitt

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and…

— Thomas Love Peacock

To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is…

— Cate Blanchett

I know someone who works in a record shop where I live and I'll go in there and he'll play me "Have…

— Ian Curtis

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how…

— Yvon Chouinard

Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could…

— Zachary Cole Smith

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing…

— Tom Waits

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of…

— Lawren Harris

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible…

— Francis Ford Coppola

U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about…

— Noam Chomsky

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good…

— Christopher Owens

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

— Robyn Hitchcock

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with…

— Jon Landau

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first…

— Freddie Hubbard

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

— Justin Townes Earle

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out…

— Conor McGregor

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts…

— T. S. Eliot

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws…

— Ludwig von Mises

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do…

— Erykah Badu

“Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

— Duncan Sheik

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

— David Mamet

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

— Russell Simmons

When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records…

— Randy Houser

I wouldn't agree with people saying Lil Wayne is wack, you know what I mean? Because I've heard Lil Wayne records many…

— Kool G Rap

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

— Bob Barr