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When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.
Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.
I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy.
Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
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.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.
For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.
Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
I don't know if the record is going to happen. I don't really think about the record. There are other things I worry about.
There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.
I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.
You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.
The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.
All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.
We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.
People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.