Records Quotes · Page 63

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record…

— Paloma Faith

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

— Marian McPartland

To set the record straight, I’m not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a…

— Kenny Chesney

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will…

— Visionist

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows…

— Kirk Cameron

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to…

— Brandi Carlile

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

— Debbie Reynolds

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound…

— Michael Bolton

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't…

— Ray Davies

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and…

— Art Garfunkel

The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not…

— Frank Zappa

My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had…

— George Thorogood

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many…

— Burning Spear

A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be…

— Taylor Swift

Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee…

— Mark Colvin

We’ve come to kill Zarek of Moesia, and if you get in our way, little girl, we’re going to kill you. (Otto)…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs…

— Joan Jett

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being…

— Frank Zappa

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction,…

— Jodi Picoult

I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through…

— John William Strutt

I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty…

— Dan Bejar

As you get older you will gain a bit more control over everything. Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find…

— Davey Havok

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with…

— Ricky Skaggs

At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.

— Matthew Healy

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

— Charles de Lint

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

— Jim Cantalupo

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

— Shania Twain

I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and…

— Jens Lekman

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all…

— Alexis Korner

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense

— Talib Kweli

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

— Diane Ackerman

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about,…

— Nas

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn…

— Bill Hicks

I did two records with DJ Mustard. They were stupid, like, crazy hits, so we just kept on working, and we did…

— Rich the Kid

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on…

— Daniel Tammet

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of…

— Dave Grohl

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,…

— Eminem