Quotes About Record

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

Blood on the Saddle' is one of my favorite cowboy records of all time.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.

I don't believe losing my unbeaten record has delayed me in my ambitions. I believe it was just a hard lesson learned and that's it.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

My favorite record, growing up, was 'Songs of the Haunted House,' a Disney record that was just wackiness. It's still one of my favorites, actually.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like Jimi Hendrix and Santana. I'll always be grateful for that.

I grew up watching Arsenal. You don't think you're going to get to play with Thierry Henry. Him breaking my dad's record and now he assists half my goals, it's weird. How'd that happen?

We got to live though the record industry in its heyday.

My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?

Spanner's the facility doctor for Flaweds. Some people are put off by his drinking. Others are put off by his shoddy personal hygiene. I'm put off by his medical track record.

With a noontime temperature of 55o, January 20, 1981 (Reagan's first inaugural) was the warmest on record.

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions.

Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn't try.