One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and ...
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand u...
Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going t...
...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
I started my own record label.
I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.
I have a pretty good record of winning in court.
Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.
I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
I don't get involved in record label politics.
Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.
I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
