Record Quotes - page 8

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did. (Claire Tomalin)
I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. View quote
Tony Bennett
For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard. View quote
Michael Azerrad
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out. View quote
Ed O'Brien
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it. View quote
Valentino Garavani
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats. View quote
David Guetta
Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of. View quote
Martin Gore
I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record. View quote
Brody Dalle
I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it. View quote
Jerry Cantrell
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention. (Isaac D'Israeli)
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts. View quote
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. View quote
Mike Myers
I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record. View quote
Reba McEntire
Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate. View quote
Reince Priebus
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. View quote
Helen Reddy
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. View quote
Helen Reddy
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. View quote
Paul Strand
I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon. View quote
Donna Summer
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. View quote
George Gaylord Simpson
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. (Serj Tankian)
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. View quote
Pete Townshend
The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better. View quote
Phil Collen
I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is. View quote
Frank O'Hara
Nobody sets out to make a bad record. View quote
Alex Van Halen