When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is n...
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wo...
I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved ...
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's ab...
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some o...
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there...
Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.
I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
