Famous Quotes & Sayings

Inara George

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Mike Young

I really don't think the records play a part in this,

It's totally unheard of in today's world, with all the safeguards we have on these underground storage tanks and the records we require to keep. That it could go on this long has us baffled.

Madeleine Peyroux

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

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.

Peter Garrett

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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

Martin Amis

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Pink

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

Pete Waterman

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Quincy Jones

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Prince

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery

Phillip Phillips

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

Jim Lee

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

John Cornyn

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

Jimmy Page

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

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.

Phil Collins

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Phil Collins

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

Phil Collins

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

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.

Gordon Parks

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

John Lydon

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

John Lydon

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

John Lennon

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

John Lennon

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

John Lee Hooker

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

Karen O

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.