When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
