“I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.” MomentsRealityCareChallengesRecordsHappeningsEssenceCamerasTake CareVideoCelebrateVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.” WantFirstsReasonUseArtistRecordsHeardFansHappeningsFirst TimeLipsTrackConsumersConfused Author:Chris Johnson
“I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.” WritingArtistSongResponsibilityRecordsIndustryHappeningsTone Author:Eric Church
“The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.” ThinkingWorldDoeHas BeensStatesProblemDifficultUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsCrazyMiddleHappeningsIntentionVery GoodEastMiddle EastDiplomacyNaiveIowaNebraskaGood Records Author:Moshe Arens
“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.” YearsLooksDoeHas BeensSeemsWould BeGivenRecordsSeaSummerLowsHappeningsAverageFoolishRecoveryObservationIceRegionsTemporaryTrendsDefiniteProjectionProgressionDip Author:David Robert Whitehouse
“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.” KnowsFeelsFirstsStatesFeelingsHandsLeftSoundVoiceCreativeRecordsCarBuildingHappeningsFirst TimeDown AndGuitarThings HappenPianoChords Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman
“The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and so they'd think about you know what's going to prevent that happening with my medical records. And interestingly enough, patients are less worried about that than their doctors are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsEnoughSocialBreakRecordsSecurityHappeningsDoctorsConstantPatientFinancialMedicalDataWorriedReportsSocial SecurityStolenMedical Records Author:William Davis
“I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.” CountryDealsRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpHappeningsIntroductionNashville Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.” KnowsWantAttentionRecordsHavensHappeningsCuriousBuriedBowie Author:Patrick Stump
“So, it just seemed like it happened naturally. We nailed our live show to some extent in a year or about a year and a half, maybe just a year of playing songs pretty much around L.A. then we went and scheduled a mini-tour up-state on the West Coast and that's when the whole Rough Trade [Records] thing started happening and from there, things just happened so quick. It changed really quickly.” YearsStatesWholeShowsSongHalfRecordsHappenedChangedHappeningsTradeWestRoughCoastWest Coast Author:Theresa Wayman
“I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.” LongWarDecisionRecordsMiddleDrugFindingsLong TimeHappeningsAngryTradeSpendingEastAfghanistanMiddle EastDeficitCapsWar On DrugsFinding Myself Author:Gary Johnson
“I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.” KnowsMeanEndsWantedArtistFoundUnderstandingSoundMy OwnRecordsHeardFieldsCreatingHappeningsBackgroundsFascinatedMeans To An EndUnderstanding Everything Author:Emily Lazar
“We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.” ThinkingWayLongSongThreeProcessRecordsProductsHappeningsAlbumsCaliforniaThemeQuartersRealised Author:Mark Hoppus
“Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."” FeelsFirstsAgeSongDealsRecordsFireHappeningsLabelsRecord LabelsYounger SisterUnderachieving Author:Jaden Smith
“What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.” PeopleChoicesCompanyRecordsPeriodsHappeningsAlbumsManagersTitlesTransitionRecord CompaniesHarvey Author:Van Morrison
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“Every Republican is on record as saying Obamacare is unacceptable, intolerable, and they're gonna do everything they could to keep it from happening. But, at the moment of truth, they're not.” MomentsRecordsRepublicanHappeningsObamacareMoment Of Truth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.” TryingLittlesEyeMy OwnWatchesRecordsHappeningsDiariesNotebookScribbles Author:Michael Palin
“Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.” KnowsCompanyRecordsHappeningsRecord Companies Author:Ritchie Blackmore