These record quotes will inspire you. Record, to write (something) down so that it can be used or seen again in the future or a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging record quotes, record sayings, and record proverbs.
Best Record Quotes
- “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” ~ Edward Steichen
- “New Rule: Gay marriage won’t lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn’t lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are “same sex” marriages. You get married, and every night, it’s the same sex.” ~ Bill Maher
- “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” ~ William Arthur Ward , Breaking record quotes
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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.” ~ Edward Steichen
- “I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul’s safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.” ~ Samuel Chadwick
- “Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav’n securely.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
- “I always prefer other people’s interpretations over my own, so I’m not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.” ~ M. Ward
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“I’m a pretty bad troubadour. I’m more of a music fan who got away with making records.” ~ Ryan Adams
- “It is one thing to record an album but it’s a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.” ~ Rihanna
- “I don’t think my playing style has really changed over the years; it’s just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I’m referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas – learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.” ~ Gary Bartz
- “There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn’t America.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Journalism is not easy. It’s the first rough draft. I don’t think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what’s there; don’t delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.” ~ Harold Evans
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“The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.” ~ Aldo Leopold
- “I want incremental improvements. There’s the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general – it’s dreadful.” ~ Martin Amis
- “You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.” ~ Jerry Garcia
- “I’ve been critical of Hillary Clinton and [Barack] Obama, for sure. But John McCain had a proven record as a senator. He also ran for president [in 2016]. But he got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States senator and still does.” ~ Jeb Bush
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“I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.” ~ Jeb Bush
- “I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there’s a real danger in this election. Electing Hillary Clinton in an era where we now are so pessimistic about the future, would double down on [Barack] Obama economics and a failed foreign policy – so most of my attention is about my record and about defeating Hillary Clinton.” ~ Jeb Bush
- “I think that is why we’re seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution.” ~ Ted Cruz
- “Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.” ~ Jake Holmes
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“Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.” ~ Sharleen Spiteri
- “For Christmas when I was about four I got given ‘Can the can’ by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks “Ego is not a Dirty Word…. I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time” ~ Bernard Fanning
- “The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration – no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking – editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it’s all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.” ~ Glenn McQuaid
- “We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.” ~ Glenn McQuaid
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“I’m really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.” ~ Heather Mills
- “Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It’s so serious and so real and so tangible that you don’t want to taint it with anything other than the thing itself. I was tickled pink with my very zen self, walking around saying that I made a record because I wanted to make a record. That’s so beautiful. It’s like a haiku poem. That takes away all the tension and the expectation. I just want to try to do something interesting.” ~ Gavin Rossdale
- “If you view computer designers as artists, they’re really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.” ~ Jules Verne
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“I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
- “U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn’t about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “It’s born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That’s not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? “Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on.”” ~ Paul Newman
- “Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.” ~ Frank Zappa
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“What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today – it’s called a rhythm section.” ~ Jim Dickinson
- “Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don’t even know it’s out. And I’m not about to jump up and down shouting, “Hey folks, look at me! I’m cool and groovy!” That’s not what George Harrison is all about.” ~ George Harrison
- “Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.” ~ Barbara Tuchman
- “I didn’t feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.” ~ Tom Lehrer
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“Whether I’m making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.” ~ Vince Gill
- “I am running against no one. I’d like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It’s a real challenge, and that’s one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.” ~ Margaret Chase Smith
- “I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.” ~ Nikola Tesla
- “I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes – it’s obvious what they’ve listened to and what they’re going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, “God, this is great.” It’s gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.” ~ Tom Verlaine
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“I don’t think Marquee Moon was so good, y’know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.” ~ Tom Verlaine
- “With my records, it’s just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don’t know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.” ~ Tom Verlaine
- “I can’t remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don’t live up to some self-imposed standard. That’s also why I don’t make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.” ~ Tom Verlaine , Life record quotes
- “Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is “Without You”, you know the Harry Nilsson record.” ~ George Harrison
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“I really don’t feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.” ~ Hamilton Leithauser
- “I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power-pop term was coined. ‘No Matter What” is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There are probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like ‘Day After Day’.” ~ Robin Zander
- “For all of my life, I’ve had this one song in my head, and I’m still trying to write it. I’m still trying to get that song out. I’m getting closer, every record I get a little bit closer to saying it the way I want to say it.” ~ Torquil Campbell
- “I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen, we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we’d start collaborating with each other.” ~ Hamilton Leithauser
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“A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
- “I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like “5 A.M.”; that song’s in a minor key and I’m just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it’s not.” ~ Hamilton Leithauser
- “There’s a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don’t apply when you’re making a record or if you’re writing a concert piece or something.” ~ Henry Jackman
- “The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don’t know. It’s very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?” ~ Brendan Benson
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“People aren’t really paying attention when they’re listening to your record, so unless you’re shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don’t pay attention.” ~ Geoff Rickly
- “I feel like when the songwriting slows, I’d love to help others with their records. If it’s something I really believe in, it’s worth the effort.” ~ Mark Kozelek
- “I’m always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there’s smoke coming out of them. I found out that I’m not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.” ~ AraabMuzik
- “Nine times out of ten, I’m trying to meet someone else’s expectations, whether it’s the director or the writer or the animator when I go back in to re-record a line. I’m the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I’m really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.” ~ Adrian Pasdar
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“I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.” ~ Steve Albini
- “Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.” ~ Tony Visconti
- “Most people assume that a record shop’s success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin’s success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.” ~ Richard Branson
- “It’s not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it’s in the national side where you see a player’s true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that’s why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven’t won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.” ~ Boris Becker
