Music Records Quotes

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.

The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.

The last two records I liked playing a lot.