Books Quote by Jimmy Iovine

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

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

— Bill Laswell

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

— Prince

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

— Mel Torme

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There's the…

— Henry Mancini

A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at…

— Will Oldham

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

— Seth Godin

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

— Nat King Cole

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with…

— Dave Grohl

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these…

— Elvis Costello

I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next.

— Julia Holter

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right.…

— Stephen Malkmus