I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.
I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.
My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.
'Imperfiction' will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.
Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.
I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.
Growing up, we had folk records.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen.
It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.
I don't know how many records I'm selling.
The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.
It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.
Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
