Top 1200 Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.
Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years.
Vanilla Ice sold ten million records. For him to be on MTV, it made me feel like it could be done.
I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.
We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.
Mike Patton is my mentor, and he releases two to five records a year with many different bands, and he gets stuff done.
My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.
Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
Strictly' is the most successful reality format in the world - it's in the 'Guinness Book of Records' - going to 38 countries. 'X Factor' hasn't done that.
I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.
A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.
I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!
So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
A lot of the time the K-pop fans are pleasant and enthusiastic and they really credit everyone who has been a part of their favorite artists' records.
I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
Christian songs are more my personal testimony. I don't say things I don't believe in on secular records, but I am going for the hit record.
The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.
If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.
It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.
I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
Pantera is a marquee band, with the most diehard fans. We sold over 20 million records without MTV or radio.
I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.
In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.
We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.
Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.
Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we're all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
I have always had a long term view on records as I want them to be books and not magazines and newspapers that you discard very quickly.
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us a little bit more intimate.
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.
I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow,
these are really great appetizers. I haven't
even considered what I'm going to order
for the full entree meal yet.'
I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing.
