Allowing Quote by Christian Marclay

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

— Michelle Chamuel

Whenever a record is broken, someone had to hold it.

— George Mikan

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would…

— Robert Cray

The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a…

— Washed Out

“They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded…

— Lester Bangs

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

— Cat Power

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In…

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it.…

— Ariel Pink

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in…

— Pantha du Prince

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

— Bill Laswell

The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack.…

— Cass McCombs

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

— Mel Torme