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“I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.”

“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.”

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Author:Michael E. Mann

“It's always push and pull with a record company.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”

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Author:Don Nelson

“I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

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Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.”

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Author:Ted Nelson

“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”

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Author:John Otway

“I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.”

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Author:John Otway

“I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.”

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Author:John Otway

“Sophomore records are historically really difficult.”

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Author:Karen O

“When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.”

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Author:Rita Ora

“Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

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“I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”

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Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.”

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Author:Courtney Love

“Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

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Author:Greg Laswell

“I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.”

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Author:Amanda Plummer

“From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.”

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Author:Cat Power

“I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.”

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Author:Cat Power

“After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.”

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Author:Cat Power

“I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.”

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Author:Billie Piper

“It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.”

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Author:Charley Pride

“Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.”

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Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

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Author:Master P

“Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.”

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Author:Master P

“A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

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