Quotes About Passion

I love making records. That's my favorite part of the whole process. And I love playing live, but certainly getting the music on a disc that's going to live forever and be there forever, just every little detail drives me crazy.

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Blood on the Saddle' is one of my favorite cowboy records of all time.

When I buy lots of records, I stop making music - it's detrimental to the creative side. When I'm DJing a lot, it's just basically partying every day.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they're good guys. It's cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

All of my style came from listening to records.

Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.