Record Comparison Quotes

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.

I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.