Quotes About Record

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

History is a record of human nature in action.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

The truth is, the best won-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.

Flesh decays; bone endures. Flesh forgets and forgives ancient injuries; bone heals, but it always remembers: a childhood fall, a barroom brawl; the smash of a pistol butt to the temple, the quick sting of a blade between the ribs. The bones capture such moments, preserve a record of them, and reveal them to anyone with eyes trained to see the rich visual record, to hear the faint whispers rising from the dead. I

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

remember, when you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

Deion) Sanders made history as the first athlete to hit a home run in the major leagues and site a touchdown in the same week.

In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption—again, coming from Smith's legacy—that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

celled. Then a catastrophe occurred (in the sense of sudden change), a dramatic increase in biodiversity, an anti-extinction, if you will. In a flash, there were not just some animal forms, but all of them. In the fossil record, all modern body types appear together at this moment. We don't know why this happened when it did. It's likely that the explosion had to wait until oxygen levels rose high enough to support the greater energy needs of larger bodies,