Records Quotes - Page 29

• The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Rap, Hip Hop, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Sides, Slides, Velvet

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Hands, Reckless, Fingertips

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• "Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.

  Sammy Hagar

  Heart, Eye, Rocks

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

  Sammy Hagar

  Matter, No Matter What, Millions

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

  Sammy Hagar

  Trying, Want, Force

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

  Sammy Hagar

  Choices, Fans, Way

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• "He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."

  Scott McClanahan

  Book, Ducks, Psychosis

  "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.

  Russell Simmons

  Artist, Boys, Emotional

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• The public doesn't get to see everything. I worked with X a couple times since then. Me and X have a close relationship. We actually did a record they were going to put on the Training Day soundtrack but he ending up buying the record from me and putting it on Great Depression as a bonus track.

  Mic Geronimo

  Couple, Track, Training

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

  Mic Geronimo

  Artist, Two, Might

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

  Mic Geronimo

  Rap, Want, Might

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I get hit everyday with people everyday saying I remember this record from that, this changed my life or this record was playing when this happened so I'm thankful for that. On the other side I look at it like I got to do so many things in life I never thought I'd be able to do so who am I to complain about what position I'm in or not in. I gotta be thankful for everything that occurred in my career. That's how I look at it.

  Mic Geronimo

  Things In Life, Careers, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people that are everywhere you go. That's who I make records for and I don't expect all of them to give me pay $11.99 to hear my record.

  Mic Geronimo

  Block, Men, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.

  Mic Geronimo

  Real, Kids, Ipods

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

  MC Lyte

  Mean, Female, Labels

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blogarama Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have never seen six, seven women signed at a time to major record labels. But they believe that they can put their footprint in hip hop in a major way.

  MC Lyte

  Strong, Believe, Hip Hop

  Source: uproxx.com

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• What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Views, Agreement

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

  Dan Auerbach

  Someday, Maybe Someday

  "Dan Auerbach on bands old and new". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2016.

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• The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.

  Al Gore

  Drinking, American West, Fire

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case it was going to end soon. So, I wrote that and it was very comforting to have that practice in the afternoons in my living room. I just wrote about my life.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Father, Practice, Japan

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Everybody talks about candidate tax returns, and they release those - well, most. But medical records, that's another thing, and that arguably might be more important or relevant than somebody's tax return.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Important, Might, Return

  "Callers on Mrs. C’s Health, Character and Polls That Just Don’t Feel Right". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 26, 2016.

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• We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.

  John Mellencamp

  Mistake, Technology, Long

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

  John Mellencamp

  80s And 90s, Labels, Pressure

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

  John Mellencamp

  Stupid, Careers, Next

  "Mellencamp's independent stand". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 19, 2010.

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