Top 1200 World Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya know Dr. Dre made the hardest gangsta rap records in the world, that didn't necessarily make him a gangsta. It was all like ya know : character, we were all in character.

When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.

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

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars' records. I'd give my right leg to be able to sing like that dude.

Do you know why it's so hard to solve a Redneck murder? 'Cause there's no dental records and all the DNA is the same.

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

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

By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care

There are no words to describe Leo. He continues to break records every time one is put in front of him.

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I never aimed for the radio, you know? I'm a DJ - I want my records to be played by all the other DJs in the clubs.

I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Chrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren't doing much for our careers.

It's amazing - 2015 has been a fantastic year for me because of the records I've broken and the wins I've had.

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

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

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

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

I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.

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

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

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

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

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

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.

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

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

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.

I've got a core audience, so regardless of what I put out, I can sell 100,000 records on an independent.

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

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

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.

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

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15. And that's when you know. It's like, oh, my God, game over.... Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money. Okay? That's despicable. Right? That's not what we're talking about here. Whatever does it for you, man.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.