Records Quotes - Page 11

• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, People, Albums

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

  Ben E. King

  Marketing, Different, Studios

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• I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Successful, Feelings

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• I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Country, Nashville, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Smart, Phones, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Different, World, How You Feel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can hold onto them is a desire. Writers and artists are trying to record these things they can no longer have. We're a heartbroken lot. Taking pictures is a brave act in which you try to explain and remember a thing you can't have anymore.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Heartbroken, Artist, Brave

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

  Jonathan Ames

  Ego, Littles, Lasts

  "The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Ames". Interview with Joshua Furst, therumpus.net. July 29, 2009.

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• Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.

  Five for Fighting

  Life Changing, Kids, Married

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

  Annie E. Clark

  Writing, Firsts, Computer

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• An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

  Annie E. Clark

  Mp3, Data, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

  Annie E. Clark

  Space, Vinyl, Ceremony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.

  Brooke Fraser

  Mean, Kids, Water

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

  Benji Madden

  Challenges, Criticism, Needs

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• I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

  John Vanderslice

  Florida, Confusing, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

  John Vanderslice

  Block, Thinking, Catching On

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Writing, Order

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• I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

  Big Sean

  Winning, Awards, Want

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

  M. Ward

  Song, Couple, Order

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• Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

  M. Ward

  Turns, Listeners

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• I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

  M. Ward

  Song, Book, Annoyed

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• 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.

  Patrick Stump

  Attention, Want, Curious

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• When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

  St. Lucia

  Ideas, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

  Sam Amidon

  Listening, Want, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Singing, Singers

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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