Record Quotes

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

I’m never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called ‘Marvin Gaye.’

I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.