Top 1200 World Records Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
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.
I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort.
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.
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.
I know a lot of people who make records, and when you meet them, it's not their personality or they're not what you're expecting. But El-P is exactly what you'd expect.
I remember the first time I dropped a couple of house records, someone threw an Air Force One in my face.
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.
We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.
I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
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.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
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.
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.
No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.
Everyone knows what Cristiano is like. He is not obsessed with beating records, but rather he aims to help the team to win.
The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.
People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
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.
I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.
I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
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.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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
My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.
I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.
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 made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make 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've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.
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 think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.
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.
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!
If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.
I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.
It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.
I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.
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 want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.
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!
