Brushes Quote by John McLaughlin

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

— Bill Laswell

What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a…

— Walter Becker

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

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

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I…

— Kathleen Edwards

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

— Quincy Jones

Even if we didn't make records, we would have done it on the side for fun. Like, some painters sell their work; others just…

— Gza

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

— Tom Petty

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

— Stan Getz

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just…

— Boy George

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

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

— Leon Russell