“There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.” PeopleShouldLooksArtMadeRealDonePainJoyDifficultRecordsActivityPerseveranceDullWorks Of ArtGreat WorkDrudgeryReal Joy Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“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
“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.” PeopleKnowsOrderDealsRecordsFansFrontsGoes OnBeatsSingingLabelsIdolsContestsAmerican Idol Author:Jake Owen
“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.” PeopleKnowsMaySaidBookCareAmericaWorryKnow HowRecordsHappenedFansChangedSeriousBaseballYesterdayWeatherWho CaresPitcherEraseDecreeWell SaidDiscrepanciesBookkeeping Author:George Will
“Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.” PeopleRecordsJourneyElementsFundamentalsSellsDance Music Author:Seth Troxler
“What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.” PeopleWantMeanSoundTalkingRecordsModernRocksMusic IsRootsProductionsRhythmConfusedBuyingRock N RollElectricRhythm And BluesModern MusicI'm Confused Author:Joe Strummer
“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.” PeopleKnowsWellsImportantDoneSeemsJobsNextCausesCasesClearRecordsInfluencePraiseBlueFellowsListsInstanceRecognitionExcellentMeritDepartmentResentmentPromotionCompensationWell DoneWeakeningJob Well Done Author:John Moulder Wilson
“No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWritingYearsMadeIdeasHelpingRunningAbleLostSpeakMistakeEducationCasesRecordsThis WorldOfficeMassAgentsUncomfortableAssumptionFollyHelp MeAppetiteDislikeUnderestimateEmployedPublic OfficeLost Money Author:H. L. Mencken
“The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.” PeopleSchoolGivenAbilityNumbersRecordsProduceDependsInvestmentInvestingTrackProfitManagersTrack RecordDental Book:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.” PeopleWayWritingRealEnoughMovingRecordsConversationReal LifeDialogueMoving In Author:Philip Gerard
“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
“The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!” PeopleFirstsWellsNightSongSoundRecordsAngelAll NightBlinkUp All Night Author:Tom DeLonge
“In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one. .. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.” PeopleThinkingArtistFallSimpleRecordsPlansFalling In LoveRadio Author:Peter Asher
“When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."” PeopleKnowsWantGivingLittlesMovingRecordsFrontsCreditBeing Afraid Author:Neko Case
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.” PeopleProblemSufferingSituationRecordsPicksMedicineMailUnfortunateHealed Author:Neil Sedaka
“The music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered.” PeopleThinkingPayActingAttentionRecordsIndustryRight NowConcernCreditPay AttentionCoveredMusic IndustryArtistryFickle Author:Bow Wow
“Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.” PeopleNeedsSometimesShowsArtistEnjoyCan DoRecordsInspiredReleaseBeing An Artist Author:Yelawolf
“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 usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.” PeopleGivingKindWould BeWaitingHoursRecordsPlanetsAvailableTapeLeaksBack In The Day Author:John Darnielle
“Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get played so much that you're overdoing a lot of things; that it's fresh ideas. And they come out fresh and if you're already in the mode, I guess, to simplify some things so that it comes across better on record, it's the right time to be tasteful with somethin'.” PeopleIfsIdeasRecordsNiceRight TimeSimplifyFresh Ideas Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.” PeopleWorldNeedsMadeRecordsInternetEasierRadio Author:Nas
“I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.” PeopleIfsTryingBigsTalkingRecordsPrideProveRapLabelsRelateTruthfulNot Talking Author:Mike Stud
“I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.” PeopleThinkingWorldRecordsEqualUniversalCommunicateBeing Equal Author:Patti Smith
“You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they feel like, "Oh, my god. This is exactly how I feel. I went through this."” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingSongRecordsHonestRelate Author:Sevyn Streeter
“I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.” PeopleWellsStillsArtistRecordsPopsProducersRapperPop MusicPop ArtUnderground Music Author:Juicy J
“Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.” PeopleHumansShowsRecordsTreatsRadicalFossils Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.” PeopleYearsHumansIdeasFactsEvilRecordsHorribleContemporaryHypocrisyMask Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.” PeopleGivingPastArtistNextPayRecordsCuttingMajorsPreparedAlbumsStoresLabelsBuyingTunesBe PreparedNext DayMarketplaceCdsExposingRecord Stores Author:Chuck D
“There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.” PeopleShouldWellsHas BeensEnoughTogetherFightingAudienceRecordsObjectsCornersRingsStoppingRefereeMismatch Author:Ferdie Pacheco
“I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.” PeopleWritingMeanCareSongMemoriesRecordsInvolvedActivityBiggerDearI CareWriting Songs Author:Joel Plaskett
“The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.” PeopleMenLooksMatterGamesBreakRecordsAchieveHe ManAppreciateBiggerLook Up Author:Garfield Sobers
“People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.” PeopleThinkingMillionsRecordsSellsBuyingMansionsFerrari Author:Kevin Martin
“You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.” PeopleWorldYearsPersonsRecordsSeeingIndustryMeetingsZoneCan't ChangeSeeing The World Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.” PeopleWritingSpiritualRecordsCreatingAdmireEnlighteningWriting Music Author:Chuck Ragan
“That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.” PeopleStillsHappensWantedReadingStuffParentReligiousRecordsBirthMiracleWitnessStakesReligious Texts Author:Mason Jennings
“I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsTryingWantedHateSongCoursesWalksRecordsLandOkayI HateExcitedDepartmentShopsDisappointedDeceived Author:Brian Eno
“One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.” PeopleMadeProblemPayAttentionRecordsMusicianAssumingStudiosMade ItPay AttentionRemove Author:Moby
“One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.” PeoplePlayVoiceRecordsJokesYeahPhonesManagersOne TimeFrankHung Author:Tony Blackburn
“I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'” PeopleLooksDifferentProblemWantedCausesSoundLosesRecordsLowsSuicideAlbumsBoredomThresholdGood Records Author:Adam Ant
“People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!” PeopleMenStillsAsksRecordsCome UpAsk Me Author:Al Green
“Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingWellsMeanStillsShowsDifficultRecordsTelevisionThings To DoDifficult ThingsTelevision ShowsRecluse Author:Chris Lowe
“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 have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.” PeopleWritingRecordsMouthsDifficultyDialogue Author:Steve McQueen
“You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.” PeopleRaceRecordsWorstBritishColourCreedsNationality Author:Ken Loach
“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.” PeopleKnowsWantCareHoursHalfRecordsFansProduceBandDifficultyDon't CareReleaseConcertsEquipment Author:Slash
“There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.” PeopleTwoSongTakenRecordsConversationGlassesVersions Author:Andrew Bird
“It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.” PeopleSoundRecordsLots Of Money Author:Grieves
“It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.” PeopleWorldWayResultsRecordsInformationInternetPostsPerceiveRepresentationBlogsYoutubeAvailability Author:Sufjan Stevens