Quotes About Records

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.

We want to win trophies and be in the record books.

Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

I've sold a lot of records. I've sold, like, 150 million records, and I don't think I've had that many good reviews. It's one of those things that when you're really successful, critics hate you just because you're successful.

You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

Pantera is a marquee band, with the most diehard fans. We sold over 20 million records without MTV or radio.