Records Quotes - Page 25

• Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Athlete, People, Bars

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• Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Made

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• Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Feet, Rocks

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• And Ralph Nader, God bless him, still out there campaigning. Ralph Nader said today he has set a record for the most campaign speeches given in one day. He gave 21 speeches in one day. Of course, we have to take his word for it, because of course, there are no witnesses.

  Jay Leno

  One Day, Campaigns, Speech

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• The group MoveOn.org has called on John McCain to release all of his medical records. In response, McCain told them, 'Why don't you just come down to the warehouse and look around for yourself? Bring a forklift, it'll take time.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Groups, Looks, Medical

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• My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

  Paul McCartney

  Labels, Sitting, Dinosaurs

  "Life for a man on the run". Interview with Kim Murphy, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2007.

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• I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Sound, Band, Should

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Goal, Achievement, World

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• I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.

  Sam Nunn

  Running, President, Conservative

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• Through our government's updated science, technology and innovation strategy, we are making the record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs and opportunities, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government's Canada Research Chairs Program develops, attracts and retains top talent researchers in Canada whose research, in turn, creates long-term social and economic benefits while training the next generation of students and researchers in Canada.

  Ed Holder

  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• I always think I'm going to record a lot on tour but it's always hard to fit it in the schedule, and there's a whole lotta' other extra curricular activities that happen on the road.

  G-Eazy

  Thinking, Schedules, Fit

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

  B. B. King

  People, Complaining, Cotton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Thalia Zedek

  People, Needs, Have Faith

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.

  Jay Watson

  Writing, Fans, Firsts

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

  Marc Almond

  Artist, People, Albums

  Source: thequietus.com

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• On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.

  Marc Almond

  Cities, Different, Soho

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

  Erol Alkan

  Ideas, Being There, Guidance

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.

  Erol Alkan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

  Moby

  People, Demise, Has Beens

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

  Moby

  Long, Sobriety, Alcohol

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

  Moby

  Jobs, Night, Play

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The Bring the Noise buzz was so strong, so we put it out on a release called 'Attack of the Killer B's' which was a record made up of B-sides and things like that - so it wasn't out on our new album, you know what I mean? But we always felt strongly about it.

  Charlie Benante

  Strong, Mean, Buzz

  Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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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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• Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.

  Tony Visconti

  Writing, Technology, Years

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

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