Records Quotes

I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied . “It’s so seldom I have one.

You are what your record says you are.

I could learn how to press ‘Record’ on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to… I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

You gotta’ sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.