My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

All I’ve ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don’t take it casually.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil ’66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

I’m not ashamed of selling millions of records. I’m very fortunate to be in that position.

I’ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Shimamoto was in charge of the records. She’d take one from its jacket, place it carefully on the turntable without touching the grooves with her fingers, and, after making sure to brush the cartridge free...

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking...

Records are made to be broken.

Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and...

When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally...

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money...

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the ’70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

I’ve sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

The trouble with records is that they’re too short.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

I think it’s my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

We learn from failure, not from success!

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

I couldn’t possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

I think I’m going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It’s much more down-home and real.

…music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons)...

I’d sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of...

We didn’t sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

I don’t rely on my figure to sell records.

Shady’s great; I love Shady Records.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can’t go on making records just for your own hometown.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as...

Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don’t have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don’t have any record to beat, you can’t...

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.

When you got a group like G-Unit… we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.