Records Quotes - Page 20

• I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

  Alex Scally

  Hate, Thinking, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.

  Phil Elvrum

  Two, Albums, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Dubstep, Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

  Gorilla Zoe

  People, Soul, Clubs

  Source: uproxx.com

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• There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

  Beck

  Real, People, Heavy

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

  Alan Palomo

  Writing, Inspire, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

  Julia Kent

  Years, People, Empowering

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Looks

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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.

  Ty Segall

  People, Scary, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

  Ty Segall

  Use, Done, Noise

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Labels, Band, Produce

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs.

  Chaz Bundick

  Training, Way, Program

  "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Careers, Stage

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Mark Kozelek

  Years, Two, Planets

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

  Win Butler

  Crazy, People, Ends

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Past, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

  Lykke Li

  Sex, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.

  Gonjasufi

  Track, Juice, Four

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Song, Sound, Should

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Years, Waiting

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

  Kieran Hebden

  Journey, Thinking, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

  Kieran Hebden

  School, People, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

  Kieran Hebden

  Black And White, Firsts, Tortoises

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you.

  Bradford Cox

  Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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