Quotes About Record

If you are not on the record calling for fair, free and just elections now and in the future, I will come to your district and I will fund a primary opponent against you.

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility with each album that I might not record again, and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

I started out writing and producing as a way for me to get the confidence to put out my own record and to learn and to really be a student of the industry.

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

You don't want to have any disagreements with a friend, you know? Not disagreements that become public record and that you still have to answer questions about 10 years later.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

For a band like me I don't really get crazy exposure with the record so sometimes it does take a while to circulate around and get out to fans.