Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Coolidge

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Rita Coolidge

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

Queen Latifah

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

Joss Stone

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

Katy Perry

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.

Karen O

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

Josh Turner

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

John Deacon

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

Link Wray

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

Lindsay Lohan

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

Julianne Hough

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

Julian Fantino

We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

Patrick Stump

I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Paul McCartney

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

Paul McCartney

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

Ray Davies

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Rick Santorum

We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

Rick Danko

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Thomas Carper

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

Vanessa Paradis

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

Stephen Malkmus

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.

Stan Getz

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

Solomon Burke

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Solomon Burke

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Sondre Lerche

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

Taylor Momsen

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Rivers Cuomo

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

Ritchie Blackmore

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Scott Weiland

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

Stevie Wonder

Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

Steven Morrissey

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.