Records Quotes - Page 31

• My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Song, Together, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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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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• Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

  Kieran Hebden

  Two, Impact, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

  Gold Panda

  Moving, Hip Hop, Sampling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

  Mat McNerney

  Hate, Thinking, Essence

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

  Mat McNerney

  Mean, Risk, Needs

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

  Scott Hutchison

  Couple, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Past, People, Dynamics

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Memorable, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

  Beck

  Years, Trying, Band

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

  Beck

  Remember You, Remembers You, Guitar

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Effort, Internet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

  Devendra Banhart

  Nerd, Geek, Best Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

  Spencer Krug

  Heart, My Heart, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

  Spencer Krug

  Facts, Labels, Mouths

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Thinking, Media

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

  John Darnielle

  Two, Able, Enough

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

  John Darnielle

  Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

  Michael Buble

  Mistake, Thinking, Wish

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

  Colin Meloy

  Rocks, Stuff, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone I'm back!" I gave everyone their lighters from Luxembourg, gave them the postcards from Italy and Rome, then said, "Hey look, I made a record, too" and played it for them. The general reaction was shock, because it was so different from what they've known me to do.

  Feist

  Home, Rome, Years

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• Records don't have to be perfect.

  Joshua Homme

  Perfect

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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