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I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.
I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.
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
I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.
To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost - it is.
I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.
K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."
It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.
Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.
My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.
For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.
Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.