“But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.” IfsSelfDreamSidesCreativeRecordsSkyConceptsOriginalsWho You AreAgingWideAccomplishmentYou ChooseAbsolutely NothingFree TimeUncommitted Author:Barbara Sher
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.” FeelsLongI CanImportantPlayHomeRecordsJourneyMusicianOriginalsRewardsIncrediblesFinishedStoresShirtsPacksTouringTrophiesThriftSuitcasesLong JourneyRecord StoresFleeceEmbarking Author:Nate Ruess
“I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.” RecordsHeardWeekOriginalsBuying Author:Tim Gane
“My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.” StuffSunRecordsOriginalsSouthMy FavoriteLondonShopsFaust Author:Tim Gane
“Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.” ThinkingWayIdeasSometimesHappensStuffMy OwnRecordsJourneyOriginalsFingertipsOriginal IdeasMutation Author:Elvis Costello
“[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?” WayReasonMomentsFeelingsDesireFallWatchesBreakGoneRecordsPhotographyOriginalsBlowDisappearLovelyTiesFireworksLovely Things Author:Laurel Nakadate
“It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.” ArtistSongRecordsOriginalsTribute Author:Etta James
“I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist like me to think I am a better writer than Cole Porter. I think it is important to realize what my strengths are. I do like to write and I'm not shabby but I don't think I'm the most brilliant writer. I think it would be a shame and sort so egotistical to say I don't need these wonderful writers. These men created works of art and wrote hundreds of beautiful songs. It would be a mistake for me to say at this point in my career that I am so good.” ThinkingMenNeedsWritingArtImportantWould BeBeautifulArtistSongRealizingMistakeCareersRecordsWonderfulShameOriginalsBrilliantLike MeWorks Of ArtEgotisticalShabby Author:Michael Buble
“My original idea- and I still want to do it -for Pinko Records, would be to create a platform for other artists to do the same thing I did. They could create their own levels of donation and final goal. I have no idea how I would make any money on that -but I don't think like that.” ThinkingWantStillsIdeasWould BeArtistGoalLevelsRecordsOriginalsFinalsNo IdeaPlatformsDonationOriginal Ideas Author:Jill Sobule
“"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.” ThinkingDifferentWishQualityRecordsStreetsOriginalsCoveredReally GreatChristmas Eve Author:Nick Lowe
“Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.” DifferentSometimesLightRecordsOriginals Author:Beck
“When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.” KnowsYearsAmericaGuyAsksNamesRecordsSeeingRootsOriginalsGreenNotesBritishStoresBrownInterpretationPeterMacsRecord StoresFleetwood Mac Author:Paul Weller
“If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is.” IfsDifferentRecordsOriginalsNineJerry Author:Chris Isaak
“We had Bob's [Gordon] records, and he's on Clifford Brown's first record as a leader. I believe it was Clifford Brown's first record as a leader and had the original versions of Daahoud and Joy Spring that were arranged by Bob's best friend, the West Coast tenor player named Jack Montrose, who I later met.” FirstsBelieveJoyI BelieveLeaderRecordsPlayerMetsSpringOriginalsWestVersionsBrownBobCoastWest CoastTenors Author:Jon Gordon
“Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.” FirstsTwoSongRecordsCoupleOriginalsAlbumsBobDylan Author:John Mellencamp
“Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)” PeopleMindPurposeLostSocialChurchPrayerRecordsOriginalsLipsWanderRepeatsTemplesWorldlyPhonographWorldly Things Book:Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.” PeopleWantWritingBelieveSongLeftMy OwnWalksRecordsPleaseOriginalsIntentionSingersLike MeSongwritingSongwritersSinger SongwritersNashville Author:Melissa Manchester