I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.
I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work ...
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big...
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... ...
Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
