Good Records Quotes

• I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

  David R. Brower

  Thinking, Political, Records

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• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  Charley Pride

  Rocks, Atlanta, Way

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• It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.

  Aimee Mann

  Important, Care, Want

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• The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

  Quincy Jones

  Artist, Special, Records

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Real, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Order

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• I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

  Jim Cramer

  Thinking, Records, Mutual Fund

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• When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

  Nick Lowe

  Redneck, Records

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• I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

  Tina Turner

  Memories, Worry, People

  "After 5-year break, Tina is still simply the best". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 2, 2005.

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• Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

  Joe Perry

  Song, Tired, Play

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• I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

  John Lydon

  Hate, Rip, Car

  "John Lydon: Soundtrack of my Life". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

  Jon Landau

  Style, Together, Albums

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• I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Tv Shows, Feelings

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Medicine, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

  Peter Garrett

  Band, Records, Environment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a pretty good record of winning in court.

  Jan Brewer

  Winning, Records, Court

  "Interview with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 1, 2010.

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• A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

  Boy George

  Boys, People, Records

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• Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

  Courtney Love

  Records, Taste, Sells

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• I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. Lacked self-confidence, and I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra. So that sort of lack of confidence helped me, I think, to make a good record when I was a student.

  Denton Cooley

  Education, Self Confidence, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

  Brian Eno

  Responsibility, People, Credit

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• I don’t need the money. I don’t care if I make a dime on this. Let me make a good record.

  Miley Cyrus

  Needs, Dimes, Records

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• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Pat Garrett

  Artist, Media, Two

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• You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

  Nick Cave

  Artist, Records

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• Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

  John Legend

  Hip Hop, Hips, Collaboration

  "John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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