Life Quote by Lester Bangs

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

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

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

— Bill Laswell

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

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

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what…

— Chad Smith

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing…

— Scott Borchetta

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

It's fun to make records that you want to sit back and listen to yourself.

— Uncle Kracker

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never…

— Loudon Wainwright III

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and…

— Christian Marclay