“My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsRealHardCareKidsTurnsMusicRecordsPlayerMinesInvolvedMusic IsTreatsGuitarProductionsCombinationBeing RealGuitar PlayerPissed OffKentGood RecordsBackwoods Author:Dolly Parton
“Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.” WritingOrderSoundMusicRecordsHighestSittingWineStudiosTonightWriting MusicStimulantsSound Of MusicMusic Writing Author:Anais Nin
“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.” PeopleWayBlackTalkingMusicRecordsOur LivesBasesPhilosophicalHistoricalDecadesPassingPassingsBlack PeopleContinuityWay Of TalkingPassing It Author:Sherley Anne Williams
“Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.” YoungCompanyMusicRecordsSwearRecord CompaniesSwear To God Book:Steel Guitar Source: Steel Guitar
“The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.” MeanIdeasAmericaMusicRecordsMusic IsRidiculous Author:John Lennon
“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantEndsEarthNaturalTalkingMusicRecordsGroupsRocksMusic IsDisasterSplitsReminiscingKeep TalkingOld Records Author:John Lennon
“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.” I CanTogetherChanceInterestingMusicBreakRecordsMusic IsWorking TogetherTouringBack TogetherTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'” ThinkingWantSaidEndsCompanyMusicRecordsMusic IsMeetingsDivorceRecord CompaniesDaft Author:John Lennon
“I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.” IfsKnowsWantWritingTryingEnoughTogetherSongThreeMusicRecordsNeededFitMusic IsAlbumsOld DaysTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.” FirstsThreeMusicRecordsHeardWeekFirst TimeParisBobDylanDjsPotty Author:John Lennon
“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
“There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.” UseSidesMusicRecordsMovementBeatsMachinesShameDjsDisco Author:David Guetta