Best Records Quotes

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I want to live my life, not record it.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist’s world.

The world doesn’t belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet–it doesn’t belong to us. We got confused about that, now it’s time to set the record straight

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.’

There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don’t.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I’m really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I think Joe Biden made correct decision for him and his family. Personally, I would rather run agianst Hillary [Clinton] because her record is so bad.

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn’t for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It’s easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence–such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who’d banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, ‘In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China’s market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren’t like you, looking at how many records you’ve sold, looking at the venue size you’re selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

We definitely set out to make a great ‘radio’ record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

I think I’ve been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don’t like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it’s not who I am or what I want to be.

I’m a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I’m doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

No – not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal – to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.

All of my style came from listening to records.

I am evidence that you don’t have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don’t think you’d know whether it’s a band or one guy.

I don’t think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I’ll do the lead vocals

That’s one reason why it’s pretty worthless, I can’t totally buy it, if you think about it, it’s things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.