The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.
I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.