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I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.
You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10 million-plus.
Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.
I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
Obviously there was the idea that we could sell more records if we played live, but I guess I didn't care enough to sell more records to do that.
Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.
I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.
We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'
I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.
My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former
All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.
For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
I have over 150 or 200 records recorded. We have so many EP's and LP's. It's just picking the best records to put the best possible album together.
I just want to fight and be remembered as the best, who fought everyone and beat them. Then the money, the numbers, the records, they all chase me.
So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.
The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.
It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.