988 Quotes About Records

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

I refuse to write out lyrics for any of my domestic releases. I remember when I was 11 or 12 years old and I would listen to a song over and over and I would make up my own lyrics because I couldn't understand what they were saying. And later when I got the internet I googled the lyrics: What was he really saying?

Then you had the B-side, which was where the musicians could be creative, even experimental. Life had a nice symmetry, back then.

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover

In the end, I believe these pages and the Book of Records return to the persistence of this desire: to know the times in which we are alive. To keep the record that must be kept and also, finally, to let it go.

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.