988 Quotes About Records

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.