Records Quotes - Page 30

• Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

  John Mellencamp

  Digital, Company, Record Companies

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• I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be able to sell millions and millions of players, and people will have to restock their record collections. It was all about money. It was all about how much money we would make, "we" being "him."

  John Mellencamp

  Technology, Player, Cds

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• We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.

  Page Hamilton

  Impact, America, Albums

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• More recently I've come to terms with what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. That's why you start to see me recoiling from 'let's put out radio records, let's get rich and get on out of here.' I have gone towards more speaking to kids and putting out records that I like.

  Asher Roth

  Kids, Gone, Radio

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.

  Page Hamilton

  Dog, Song, Nice

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I'm feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.

  Christine Sneed

  Notebook, Couple, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."

  Jaden Smith

  Song, Fire, Age

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• I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

  Van Morrison

  Periods, Wanted, Definite

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

  Van Morrison

  Fitting, Found, Stage

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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• There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.

  Van Morrison

  Reality, Together, Kind

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.

  Van Morrison

  Men, Vision, Nerves

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com.

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• In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Artist, Blow

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.

  Van Morrison

  Facts, Accepting, Reviewers

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

  Van Morrison

  Media, Sick, Labels

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

  Van Morrison

  People, Choices, Titles

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Character

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

  Van Morrison

  Natural, Performing, Natural Things

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.

  Jill Stein

  Two, Evil, Majority

  Source: college.usatoday.com

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• Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.

  Tyga

  Song, Jamaica, Essence

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I'm just trying different styles and switching it up, but getting back to rap and the essence and the swag that I brought to the game from records like "Rack City" and "Faded," records like that. I got some good collaborations that people are gonna be excited about.

  Tyga

  Rap, Essence, Swag

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Impact

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records. The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in order to achieve the following goals.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Years, Goal

  "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, Tom Mccarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Importantly, in several years when we have accomplished all of our enforcement and deportation goals and truly ended illegal immigration for good, including the construction of a great wall, which we will have built in record time. And at a reasonable cost, which you never hear from the government.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Government, Years

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Without changing my style and who I am, they [Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver ] know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.

  Cody Johnson

  Writing, Who I Am, Style

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

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