Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.
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 honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.
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 fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.
My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.
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.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
When I miss Guru, I bump one of our records. Then I shed a tear and get back to work.
How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.
Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.
I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.
Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
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 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 was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.
I've got a core audience, so regardless of what I put out, I can sell 100,000 records on an independent.
I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.
Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.
I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.
President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
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.
I've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.
I like records that are all over the place. That's why I think my favorite Beatles record was always 'The White Album.'
I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.
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