Records Quotes · Page 67

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

— Q-Tip

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and…

— Syd Barrett

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

— Jesse McCartney

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record…

— Anonymous

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties…

— Buzz Osborne

I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.

— Michele Bachmann

A lot of reasons I didn't do records with people is because I never wanted their light to reflect on me.

— Rakim

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other…

— Frank O'Hara

I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really…

— Nomi Ruiz

Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The…

— Stephen Halbrook

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was…

— Talib Kweli

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record.…

— Fred Thompson

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we…

— Isabel Allende

If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for…

— Matt Corby

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,…

— Patti Smith

I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and…

— Mary Mattingly

My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

— Dolly Parton

I was just thinking of Rush. I went to see Rush a few years ago, because my record label guy in the…

— Sarah Harmer

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will

It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for…

— Johnny Cash

The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to…

— Kendrick Lamar

What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which…

— Avik Roy

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

— Graham Kendall

This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay…

— Macklemore

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

— Noah Baumbach

I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally.

— Larisa Latynina

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

— Torae

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

— Eric Church

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record…

— Billy Davies

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

— Agnetha Faltskog

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

— Erica Jong

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

— Vivienne Westwood

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

— Neil Innes

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out…

— Dan Hill

There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning…

— Bruce Pavitt

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play…

— T Bone Burnett

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but…

— Courtney Love

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

— John Deacon