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Quotes About Records

Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.
~ John C. Bogle
Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually tried to support has been No. 1.
~ Jeremih
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
~ Holly Johnson
We never thought that there would be another Sachin Tendulkar. But Virat Kohli has changed this mindset. I think Virat can surpass Tendulkar's records.
~ Virender Sehwag
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.
~ Ken Liu
What you fail to do is look ahead, and then imagine yourself looking back from that future point. Learning the new emotions that time brings. Discovering, for example, that as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. Even if you have assiduously kept records -- in words, sound, pictures -- you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping.
~ Julian Barnes
birth certificate and death certificate, both issued in Cook County, Illinois. Laura's various diplomas, her birth certificate from Rhode Island, her social security card, her driver's license. Andrea Eloise Mitchell's record of live birth dated August 20, 1987. The deed to the Belle Isle house. Immunization records. Marriage license. Divorce decree. Car titles. Insurance cards. Bank statements. Credit card statements.
~ Karin Slaughter
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
~ J. D. Salinger
There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.
~ Eric Davis
Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
~ Henry Rollins
The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
~ Waylon Jennings
The records made money, but I didn't get none.
~ Little Walter
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.
~ Steve Earle
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
~ Diane Abbott
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
~ Jason Mraz
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
~ Lily Allen
All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.
~ Brody Dalle
A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.
~ Marc Bolan
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
~ Aretha Franklin
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
~ Snoop Dogg
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
~ Nat King Cole
I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.
~ Ryan Adams
There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.
~ Robert Crumb
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
~ Salma Hayek