Records Quotes - Page 18

• I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Song, Ipods, Versions

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

  A.C. Newman

  Rocks, Concerned

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

  Bernie Sanders

  Hurt, Long, Checks

  "Democratic Candidates In Michigan Focus On Flint's Water Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 07, 2016.

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• Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

  Rodney Jerkins

  Four, Likes, Five

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet [Jackson] likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.

  Bryce Wilson

  Giving, Albums, Half

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• No one's selling records anymore, so there's no income you're being robbed of. I think that you should be in alignment with the world. The world is about sharing now, so as long as it's out there, it should be there. I think it's fine.

  Bryce Wilson

  Thinking, Long, Income

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.

  Bryce Wilson

  Projects, Handle, Has Beens

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

  Bryce Wilson

  Albums, Made, Brown

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

  Bryce Wilson

  People, Half, Knows

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I mean, just like every other prominent songwriter or producer, you have the shot. You send in records and if they make it, they make it. If they get heard, they get heard. I'm not sure if you know how that circle of songwriting and producing works, but every time a big artist is working, everybody and their mother is in the studio writing records to try to get on it.

  Bryce Wilson

  Mother, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

  Alexis Taylor

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Copying, Logical

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

  Alexis Taylor

  Sound, Disappointing, Whole

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

  Michael Gira

  Answers, Want, Exit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

  Michael Gira

  Opposites, Want, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.

  Michael Gira

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Song, Drinking, Coffee

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  My Favorite, Mainstream, Vocal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

  Alex Scally

  Hate, Thinking, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.

  Phil Elvrum

  Two, Albums, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

  DJ Shadow

  Community, Movement, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Dubstep, Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

  Gorilla Zoe

  People, Soul, Clubs

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

  Grant Evans

  Stranger, Malls

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

  Beck

  Light, Different, Sometimes

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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