Appeals Quote by Ry Cooder

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

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see…

— Ry Cooder

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing.…

— Steve Earle

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

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

— Bill Laswell

I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…

— Will Oldham

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

“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

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to…

— Brandon Boyd

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

— John McLaughlin

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

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