Quotes of: Record-companies Keyword

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

Ned Beauman

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Neil Young

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

Paloma Faith

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

Philippe Petit

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

Phillip Phillips

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pinetop Perkins

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

Paul Simon

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

Stevie Jackson

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

Steve Martin

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

Sean Parker

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Smokey Robinson

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

Stephen Sondheim

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.

Serj Tankian

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

Tre Cool

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Ted King

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

Thurston Moore

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

Tom Odell

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

Jonny Wilkinson

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

Kenny Chesney

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Keith Jarrett