Tony Visconti Quotes - Page 2

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• The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

  Tony Visconti

  Records, Whatever It Takes, Objects

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• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Tony Visconti

  Father, School, College

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• I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

  Tony Visconti

  Feelings

  "Tony Visconti on Berlin The Real "Uncut" Version". Uncut Interviews, www.bowiewonderworld.com.

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• Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.

  Tony Visconti

  Wall, People, Labels

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• I am not a creature of habit.

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  Habit, Creatures Of Habit, Creatures

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• My profession is called record production.

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  Records, Profession, Productions

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• I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

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  New York, Writing, Flying

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• The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

  Tony Visconti

  Giving, Groups, Dollars

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

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  Scary, Monsters, Albums

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• Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

  Tony Visconti

  Stars, Sleep, Rocks

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• I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

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  Sound, Brooklyn, Grew Up

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• I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.

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  Groups, Different, Dollars

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

  Tony Visconti

  Faith, Musician, Enormous

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• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• I make records with an open mind, I always have.

  Tony Visconti

  Mind, Records, Open Mind

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• Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.

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  Queens, Rocks, Groups

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

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  Son, Guitar, Years

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• In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

  Tony Visconti

  Holiday, August, Europe

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• Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

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  Albums, Records, Ignored

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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