Record Quotes - page 12

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos. (Duncan Sheik)

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.

Duncan Sheik

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

Duncan Sheik

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

Duncan Sheik

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Dave Rowntree

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

Dave Van Ronk

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

Dave Van Ronk

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Ellsworth Huntington

There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

Eberhard Weber

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

Eberhard Weber

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason. (Eberhard Weber)

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

Ester Dean

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

Etta James

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

Etta James

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

Evan Dando

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

Eddie Mathews

The record industry is a world within itself.

Edwin Starr

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

Eike Batista

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

Fred Frith

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

Freddie Hubbard

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you. (Frankie Valli)

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Giorgio Moroder

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Glenn Danzig

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

Glenn Danzig

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

Glenn Frey

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