“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.” IfsMatterHandsRecordsNo Matter WhatReactionsInitials Author:Andy Partridge
“There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.” HandsCan DoRecordsCdsVinyl Author:Simon Le Bon
“I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsI CanRealHandsArtistLostRecordsInspiredHip HopHipsHopsJust BeingGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:Nickolas Ashford
“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.” DoeHandsEyeArtistRecordsPaintingGesturesLinearBeholderEye Of The BeholderGraphs Author:Roger Fry
“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.” MenBookHandsForgetPayRecordsBusyDuesEmptinessPensDiariesTediousTolls Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.” MindMadeHandsMemoriesRecordsDoorsColorShapesWindowArchitectureRoofSlopes Author:Anthony Lawlor
“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” PeopleKnowsWantDoeSaidIdeasHandsWould BeJobsWaitingLinesRecordsPlansThousandInnovationIndependentAddMy FavoriteUglyStoresLabelsFeaturesCrucialPresentationSaying NoSaying YesRecord LabelsItunes Author:Derek Sivers
“A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.” ThinkingMenWorldGivingYearsChildrenSometimesWholeHandsThreeBreakRecordsFourCenturyThis WorldHe ManPaperLawyerTitlesFour YearsClientsEstatesPapersAttorneyAcres Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“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 wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.” PeopleHandsSongWonderHellRecordsPercentPrisonGuitarLegsMelody Author:Ronnie Radke
“I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.” HandsWaterCompanyRecordsCryCostMusicianMusic IsDecadesConsumersExpensiveIronicCentsCdsRecord CompaniesCharging Author:Tom Morello
“Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.” HandsAbleSongWatchesRecordsEmotionalListeningComputerImpactIncrediblesConvenience Author:Dave Grohl
“In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.” HandsHateSoundInterestPerfectRecordsRocksMusic IsWindowI HateStudiosTunesVocalRock MusicGridsAuto Tune Author:Taylor Hawkins
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.” HumansWholeHandsPoliticsPowerRecordsRightsWrittenMankindHuman NatureSacredDivinityVolumeSunbeams Author:Alexander Hamilton
“With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle, but unfortunately he fell off and sustained cuts to his face and hands. Apparently Bush was distracted by the enormous responsibilities of the presidency. I'm just kidding. He hit some gravel or something.” HandsFacesPresidentResponsibilityRecordsCuttingChaosIraqEnormousGasWeekendPresidencyDistractedPresident BushBicycleGravelGas PricesJust Kids Author:Craig Kilborn
“At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.” TwoHandsKnownRecordsSourceRadioDuesCuriousFeaturesCharacteristicsFarmsPassagesInvestigationRecallsInterferenceTelescopesIntermittent Author:Kenneth Franklin
“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensArtHandsCultureCompanyMillionsRecordsFansBrokenInternetPopsLabelsBordersOnlineDistributionPop CulturePresentationRecord LabelsBroken Down Author:Laura Jane Grace
“I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I picked up whatever recording gear I could get my hands on and I'd sit there day-in and day-out... experimenting with different sounds and trying to write songs.” WritingTryingDifferentHandsSongFunSoundRealizingRecordsGears Author:Alex Goot
“God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.” MadeHandsFacesSinHellRecordsFrontsSonCrossesYour FacePalmsWrathWarrantsDebtors Author:John Piper
“I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.” FirstsHandsGuyNamesRecordsRingsMore TimeChicagoListen To Me Author:Muddy Waters
“Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.” HandsRecordsRapPromotionDeath Row Author:Steve Rifkind
“The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.” HandsRecordsWonderfulUsual Author:Caetano Veloso
“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.” IfsShowsHandsThreeAsksRecordsRaisesSellsPlanningExecutivesFlewJet Author:Brad Sherman
“Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.” WorldEndsHandsReadingJesusLeftGivenKnownRecordsTeachingTalentReturnTenPreparationServantSheepProphecyDiscourseVirginsLampsEnd Of The WorldGoatsMatthewParablesLeft Hand Author:Eric D. Huntsman
“No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .” HandsPoliticalLeftPresidentRecordsModernWingsBarackVotingSenateSenatorsExtremismLeft WingModern TimesPolitical Extremism Author:Bob Tyrrell
“When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.” HandsRoomsRecordsHairLovelyFollyPaceSmoothStoopsLovely Woman Author:T. S. Eliot
“Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too.” HandsRecordsStoresArtworkRecord Stores Author:Nathan Followill
“The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.” IfsThinkingGivingTryingLittlesFactsHandsRealitySeemsLastsRealizingCommonRecordsSeeingFeetMinutesPhotographyCamerasPhotographTensionReasonableThrillViewersLiteralTrue BeautyLast MinutePictorialThermometersSleight Of Hand Author:John Loengard
“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.” HandsRecordsCloudsAlbumsDigitalFloatingAnalog Author:Dave Grohl
“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.” KnowsHandsFilmSoundKnow HowRecords Author:Ice T
“It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.” KnowsFeelsFirstsStatesFeelingsHandsLeftSoundVoiceCreativeRecordsCarBuildingHappeningsFirst TimeDown AndGuitarThings HappenPianoChords Author:Beth Nielsen Chapman