Quotes About Records

Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.

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fan. You know, Jimmy's got records stashed away in case something unnatural happens to him." "Your friend made one threat too many in his life," Russell shrugged. "I'm only saying the nuclear fallout's going to hit the fan when they find his body." "There won't be a body.

One thing that old blues records teach you, is that even people with very limited skills can play very personal, distinctive, and appealing music that has nothing to do with the extent of their technique. It was their artistry. It was their feeling.

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in the afternoon, and playing folk at night. I was quite busy!

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I'm into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I'm happy.

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

I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.

Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.

Statistics are there to be broken.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in you. So you have to work even harder to generate interest.

If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.

There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!