“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.” MadeDoneSituationCareersTakenRecordsTeam Author:Don 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.” YearsWellsShowsLastsInterestingCareersRecordsHavensVery GoodPopsConsistently Author:John Otway
“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.” PresidentCareersSuccessfulRecordsTeamDecidedCampaignsBusinessmanAttackingRomneyDisappointingPrivate SectorSuccessful BusinessSuccessful Businessman Author:Reince Priebus
“I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.” GuyFunCareersRecordsProduceCoupleProducers Author:Ricky Skaggs
“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.” WantHas BeensSaidWinningSportsGoalCareersBreakRecordsFortunateBowlsSuper BowlMiamiDolphins Author:Dan Marino
“For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.” LooksReasonGoalInterestMemoriesCareersRecordsSubjectsPurePhotographyTradePhotographerRefuseTricksBetrayReportersDocumentsLensesVirtuosity Author:Andre Kertesz
“I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.” PeopleKindDesireArtistCareersRecordsConsistent Author:Rico Love
“I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.” LongDoneBigsCareersRecordsAirIndiaRainbowLong Careers Author:Terry Riley
“What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records and loves what she does. I think she's a really good example to anybody in the industry that there is life beyond the shows.” ThinkingDoeShowsCareersRecordsExampleIndustryMachinesAnd LoveKeep GoingGood Examples Author:Kerry Ellis
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsHas BeensWould BeSoundInterestingDealsCareersCasesRecordsMinesGoldVersionsLoserIndicationPlatinum Author:Beck
“Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.” WorldDifferentWholeAgeAbleCompanyCareersRecordsPossibilityWhole WorldEnjoyedNew AgeRecord CompaniesStaggering Author:Lyle Lovett
“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.” HandsWantedLastsLostFeltEasyInterestCareersWorryRecordsInvolvedBeatsTiredCelebrateExhaustedGet InvolvedLawsuit Author:Tom Petty
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingI CanHardRunningSchoolSongSocialProcessSidesMy OwnActingCareersPathRecordsMediaStyleInformationProduceHard WorkInvolvedWake UpSocial MediaHonestlyVocalMusic BusinessLearners Author:Asher Monroe
“What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.” ArtistCompanyCareersRecordsBloodSixAlbumsHarmThese DaysDryLongevityDrainsRecord CompaniesSingles Author:Elton John
“In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.” PeopleHas BeensBigsCareersClearRecordsBoatLoudCrooks Author:John Lee Hooker
“I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.” WantIndividualCareersRecords Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in music are just in music and can dedicate all their time to that and I can't do that, so I really want to have both things and I'm just trying to figure out how.” PeopleWantTryingWellsI CanDifferentMusicCareersRecordsFiguresRadio Author:Hilary Duff
“I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.” WantedArtistCareersRecordsAcoustics Author:Jason Mraz
“It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.” LongHappensCareersRecordsExpectationsAlbumsSettingSettingsLong Careers Author:Scott Weiland
“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.” CareersRecordsToo MuchCuttingStageParticularWillingTasteApproachTrackEditorsProvenInputEditorialsTrack RecordPersonal Taste Author:Grant Morrison
“It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.” WantGivingTwoRealTogetherDifficultDealsCareersRecordsTvs Author:Ed Westwick
“My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.” WantFirstsHas BeensCareersRecordsProveUnderstoodSophomoreProving Yourself Author:Fiona Apple
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.” WantMeanCoursesMy OwnConsciousnessCareersRecordsGloryStandardsHopefullyAdvancementPianist Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin
“When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.” KnowsReasonWholeThreeCoursesCareersRecordsBandThirdsQuittingTerrifiedSoloMacsGreat WritersFleetwood Mac Author:Stevie Nicks
“Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.” MeanMadeDifficultCareersRecordsHugeCostBandMore MoneyLots Of MoneyUndertakings Author:Rob Zombie
“I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.” YearsHas BeensSongGrowsAbilityCareersRecordsMinesBlessedIncrediblesComposition Author:Dionne Warwick
“I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have a career as a college professor, and yet I did all those things and I did them well. I put out some records in the 1980's and 1990's that changed the way some trumpet players played.” WayWellsCareersRecordsPlayerChangedCollegeMusicianJazzProfessorsClassical MusicJazz MusicTrumpetsJazz MusicianClassical MusiciansCollege Professors Author:Paul Smoker
“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.” GivingYearsBelieveMadeArtistSongWishMemoriesNumbersCareersRecordsMinesProudCoupleCommitmentRedTrackButtonsRetrospectFond Memories Author:Greg Lake
“It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love playing acoustically. This is the way I started. Herb and I met each other forty years ago when we were both eighteen years old, playing bluegrass, and that's what drew me into music, and I enjoyed every particular part of my career. But now I enjoy it because it's the twilight of my career, where I can play what I want and I can play when I want and where I want. And that's the greatest part it all. So it's sort of a right that I've earned. I can record records the way I want to.” ThinkingWayWantYearsI CanDifferentPlayEnjoyCareersRecordsParticularMetsYears AgoAppreciateEnjoyedFortyTwilightHerbsEighteenBluegrassEighteen Years Old Author:Chris Hillman
“I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.” LeftCareersRecordsSingingLabelsAgreementMutualRecord LabelsSinging Career Author:Alex Parks
“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
“If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.” IfsThinkingHumansMeanDoeMadeImportantDifferentWholeCultureThreeCareersAudienceRecordsGreaterFiguresPercentAppreciateAgreeJazzWorriedSignificanceDistinctive Author:Dave Douglas