Records Quotes · Page 51

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

— Dave Grohl

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

— Tony Visconti

Records should come from feelings. You shouldn't try to do nothing; it should just come out how you feel.

— Jadakiss

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

— Deana Carter

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the…

— Alex Chilton

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a…

— Kim Deal

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The…

— Craig Biggio

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

— Bibi Bourelly

It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas,…

— Ice Cube

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear…

— Wayne Kramer

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night…

— Mark Gottfried

This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look…

— Richard P. Feynman

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…

— John William Draper

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner…

— Eddie Trunk

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles.…

— Jack White

The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001,…

— Ken Rosenthal

It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes…

— Ray Lyman Wilbur

For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never…

— David Cannadine

The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all…

— Dennis Kucinich

While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,…

— Thomas Sowell

Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge…

— Scott Adams

Time is the most important factor in determining market movements and by studying past price records you will be able to prove…

— William Delbert Gann

Here's the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record,…

— Chris Matthews

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

— Norah Jones

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

— Nick Cave

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

— Beck

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as…

— Klaus Nomi

And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.

— Madison Cawein

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

— Moby

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the…

— Lyle Lovett

to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

— Lionel Messi

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The…

— Anonymous

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding…

— Jeff Tweedy

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of…

— Tom Odell

No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

— Gary Jarman

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

— Amanda Palmer