Top 1200 Good Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

I remember the first time I dropped a couple of house records, someone threw an Air Force One in my face.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

Being the longest-reigning champion isn't that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.

The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do.

I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we're doing to the next level, without compromising.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

When I miss Guru, I bump one of our records. Then I shed a tear and get back to work.

Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

I like records that are all over the place. That's why I think my favorite Beatles record was always 'The White Album.'

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.

Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

I competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.