Top 1200 Record Store Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Every comedian wants to play the London Comedy Store, and I was no exception.

We want to use innovation to be the most productive retail store in the industry.

President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

You never quite know what's in store for the Royal Rumble, and I think that's the beauty of it.

I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

I get hit everyday with people everyday saying I remember this record from that, this changed my life or this record was playing when this happened so I'm thankful for that. On the other side I look at it like I got to do so many things in life I never thought I'd be able to do so who am I to complain about what position I'm in or not in. I gotta be thankful for everything that occurred in my career. That's how I look at it.

Going out into the world, I do feel like a kid in a candy store.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

[Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote the songs on there, and then he let me open up for him for two years all around the world. And that was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene.

I definitely try to profile people at the grocery store based on what they're buying.

I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Black Thought on the same record. I like all those rappers, so why can't I work with them in some type of capacity? It just speaks to my versatility. I don't just listen to one type of rap. I listen to all of it so I can make all of it.

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

I would like a better record here in Australia but I would like a better record in every country.

California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used to scratch records on it - and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom's record or Pop's record, and they had their names on each and every one.

We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work.

We saw what Thom Tillis did in Raleigh. He went to Washington and in 2017 again voted for a tax bill that provided massive giveaways to corporate interests and the wealthiest, really capitulating to those corporate interests and his special interest backers. A consistent record in Raleigh, a consistent record in Washington.

If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working in a corporation, getting paid pretty good money and doing really exciting research. And we had just done the Cool To Be You record, and I said well, we'll put this record out, but I can't tour it because I just want to do science. That's my gig, my future.

Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.

If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

I store my power right up until it's time to hit the ball.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

Coast is my go-to store for any awards do - it's brilliant for occasion wear.

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.

The Antarctic ice sheet has reached record levels in the midst of so-called climate change and global warming. It's the same thing at the North Pole. Arctic ice sheet levels are at record levels. The North Pole is supposed to have been melted by now, according to Algore.

My first record was almost not my first record.

Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.

If you'd have asked me two years ago, I'd have been like "No, anything and everything. Go for it." Now, I want to focus on doing the best I can each time. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.

Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.

I love good momentum. It makes everybody happy and in this time that we're living in, especially musically speaking, if you can make a record that has more than 4 or 5 songs deep and it has a good variety of songs. You don't frontload it with those first couple of songs. You continue the record taking the listener on a journey, musically speaking. I think you've really got something there.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.