“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.” IdeasFilmHeavenFeltBitsRecordsSingingMusicalSingersHated Author:Billie Piper
“Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.” BitsRecordsVery GoodBobDylanDisappointing Author:Madeleine Peyroux
“I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.” TryingLittlesStoriesBitsRecordsPencils Author:Kid Koala
“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.” PeopleThinkingTwoHardBitsPracticeRecordsMeditationPositive ThinkingHealthBuddhismMy FriendsAidsLongevityAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.” ThinkingLittlesSelfAbleFightingBitsWalksRecordsWillingPrideLittle BitSakeSelf Respect Author:Ryan Adams
“It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.” HeartLittlesPlayWould BeFunBitsRecordsNiceLittle BitReally Nice Author:Ryan Adams
“I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.” WorldTryingKindLittlesCountryBitsRecordsLittle BitPreparedSave The WorldJohnny Appleseed Author:Don McLean
“I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.” IfsShowsProblemBitsRecordsProductsPhonesProductionsFinishedOnlineYoutube Author:Wanda Sykes
“I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.” WritingRealStoriesBitsRecordsReal LifeDialogueCollectors Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.” NeedsYearsBelieveAgeBitsPerfectCompanyRecordsGroupsRadioStormAppealsBelieve In YouGreat MusicRecord CompaniesPerfect Storm Author:Kenny Rogers
“I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.” IfsLittlesBitsRecordsPrideProudLittle BitUnexpectedToo DeepGucci Author:Solange Knowles
“I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.” ThinkingTryingSongBitsRecordsProducersRepeatsLike SomethingNew Songs Author:Brian Eno
“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.” BitsDifferencesRecordsSeeingPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographCamera And PhotographyLeica Author:Ernst Haas
“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingBitsRecordsHeardBeatsSingingHip HopHipsRangeHops Author:Lauryn Hill
“I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.” TryingAbleStuffBitsRecordsDadComputerBiggerCleanMy DadOrganizedCollectionsMp3 Author:Girl Talk
“The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.” FirstsKindPlayStuffBitsSoundRecordsPicksChecksMelodyViolinLoops Author:Andrew Bird
“Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.” YearsWellsMeanLittlesPersonsDoeAgeBitsRecordsLittle BitMusicianPrioritiesIntenseOddDedicatedSlow DownSlowingPart TimePriorities In Life Author:David Gilmour
“I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.” ThinkingShouldMayLittlesBitsRecordsLittle Bit Author:Michael Holroyd
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingHeartArtistSongTurnsStuffBitsRecordsWrittenTreeModernLove YouWindColdMy HeartMusic IsOkayAssBrokeBrownLove Each OtherSigningWigsHeart BrokeBlowing ItModern Music Author:Frank Zappa
“For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it.” WayWantWritingTryingLittlesStillsSongBitsRecordsLittle Bit Author:Torquil Campbell
“I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.” WorldHomeKidsBitsCan DoEffortRecordsMy TimeScratchesIphoneIpodsVinyl Author:Rick Astley
“It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.” IfsActionJobsSongBitsRecordsCuttingDemandScoreMassiveOrchestra Author:Eric Fellner
“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.” KnowsRealSongStuffBitsRecordsHeardTvsSingingWorkersFolksRadioSingersFantasticIrelandLiverpoolOld Records Author:John Lennon
“So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.” DoneWholeHappensBitsProcessRecordsComedyWeekKillersCdsTaglines Author:Joe Rogan
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard