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“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”

Ifs Form Lines Records Emotional Shapes Equal Details Granted Tone Significance Why Not Emphasis Actuality Without A Trace

Author:William Mortensen

“[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?”

Way Reason Moments Feelings Desire Fall Watches Break Gone Records Photography Originals Blow Disappear Lovely Ties Fireworks Lovely Things

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.”

Ifs Believe War Values Records Photography Photographer Photograph Hunger Dialogue Realistic Genocide Incidents Assessment Pretentious Prompts

Author:Eugene Richards

“Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.”

Thinking Trying Stills Records Subjects Performances Aim Strive Photographer Objectives Acknowledge Instant Reaching Gestures Portraits Artifice Facial

Author:Martin Schoeller

“If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.”

Ifs Trying Looks Kind Ideas Lost Records Materials Nostalgic

Author:Thomas Struth

“I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Records Function Majority Photographer Concealed

Author:Arthur Tress

“A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of the state of mind of the photographer. And if you were to extend the idea of the set-up photograph beyond just physically setting up the picture, I would argue that the photographer wills the picture into being.”

Ifs Mind Ideas States Records Conditions Fronts Cameras Photographer Photograph Arguing Setting Settings State Of Mind Documents

Author:James Welling

“A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.”

People Term Records Objects Photography Size Etc Wardrobe

Author:Francesca Woodman

“The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.”

People Book Eye Records Generations Cameras Horrible Museums Thick Hung Future Generation Filthy Eyes That See Horrible Life

Author:David Shrigley

“I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.”

Shows Water Lines Records Nice Drink Caught Fishes Radio Tea Kitchen Lunch Staff Salad Drink Water Herbal Tea

Author:Martha Stewart

“Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.”

Levels Consciousness Records Mankind Conspiracy

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.”

Men Wanted Song Records Ohio Old Song

Author:Dolly Parton

“I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'”

Thinking Records Radio Old Records

Author:Dolly Parton

“It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.”

Artist Song Records Originals Tribute

Author:Etta James

“I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.”

Mind Said Wanted Company Records Best Things Things To Do They Said Record Companies Lush

Author:Etta James

“At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.”

Writing Years Book Shows Song My Own Records Band Screens I Realized Release Labels Shirts T Shirt Publish Silk

Author:Dave Grohl

“Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.”

People Made Enough Bigs Records Couple Assuming Bike Jet Garage Macho Lear Luggage Minivans

Author:Dave Grohl

“A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.”

Hands Records Clouds Albums Digital Floating Analog

Author:Dave Grohl

“I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.”

Hard Records Believer

Author:Dan Rather

“I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.”

Way Firsts Play Used Records Stones Starting Rolling Good Way Rolling Stones

Author:Tommy Bolin

“I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.”

Want Together Company Records Ready Band Majors Working Together Invites Record Companies

Author:Tommy Bolin

“I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.”

Thinking Should Artist Records Sells Proven

Author:Toni Braxton

“There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.”

Records Fields Jazz Coming Out

Author:Herbie Hancock

“These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.”

People Want Company Records Going Out Record Companies

Author:Lester Bowie

“My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'”

People Heart Real Soul Records Rocks Pops Sentiments Heart And Soul Borderline

Author:Lady Gaga

“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.”

Mean Long Country Government Past Process Goal Steps Principles Issues Records Violence Vote Corruption Decades Welfare Concrete Evasion

Author:Ayn Rand

“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”

People Film Actors Sports Records Risk Hero Politician Promise Benefits Hollywood Athlete Daring

Author:Oliver North

“You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.”

Ifs Way Certain Records Stones Heavy Similarity

Author:John Lennon

“I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.”

Enjoy Records Listening Folks Indian Folk Music Indian Music

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.”

Knows Want Interesting Sun Records Periods Graves

Author:John Lennon

“On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show.”

World Art War Shows Waiting Sides Hours Records Slips Soar Resignation Melbourne Timetables Against War

Author:Margo Kingston

“I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.”

Different Fall Boys Records Four Happened Regret Band Track Albums Planning Solo Different Directions Delayed Don't Regret Fall Out Boy

Author:Patrick Stump

“Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.”

Want Art Might Artist Records Products Art Is Being An Artist

Author:Patrick Stump

“I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.”

Kind Used Records Stores Nerd Record Stores

Author:Patrick Stump

“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.”

Artist Company Millions Records Dollars Selling Rapper Publishing Sampling

Author:Rick James

“As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.”

Long Chance Deals Records Get Better New Music Good Chance Keep Learning Learning New

Author:Mike Gordon

“We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.”

Long Made Water Records Feet Months Ocean Seven Fishes Beach Shore Swimming Miami

Author:Michael Stipe

“When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.”

Wanted Artist Records Producers California Hanging Out Jimmy

Author:Johnny Ramistella

“Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.”

Littles Made Song Strong Rooms Records Pieces Bridges Very Strong Living Room Sony Fluff Incas

Author:Paul Simon

“What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.”

People Ifs World Believe Happens America Jesus Records Heard Granted Plenty Someday Believe In Me Popularity

Author:Marilyn Manson

“When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.”

Knows Hands Film Sound Know How Records

Author:Ice T

“I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.”

Needs Millions Records Amount Sells Selling Embarrassing Marxist Borderline

Author:Steve Earle

“The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.”

Records Events Evidence Winter Extremes Objectives Weather Reports Global Warming Etc Temperature Assertion Drought Wildfires Extreme Weather

Author:James Taylor

“Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.”

Wells Done Artist Deals Company Records Havens Exception Owners Copyright Record Companies Itunes

Author:Peter Gabriel

“Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment.”

Giving Years Believe Made Artist Song Wish Memories Numbers Careers Records Mines Proud Couple Commitment Red Track Buttons Retrospect Fond Memories

Author:Greg Lake

“I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.”

Knows Feels Know How Records Week Studios Eight Finished Intense Schedules

Author:Amy Grant

“We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.”

Records Building

Author:Neil Young

“I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.”

Want Deals Records

Author:Taylor Swift

“Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.”

Ideas Records Danger Projects Bunch Translate Mice

Author:Damon Albarn

“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.”

Giving Said Might Used Guy Stuff Company Talking Records Mines One Day England Albums Productions Fantastic Tape Virgins This Guy Record Companies Berserk Ubiquity

Author:Roy Ayers

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