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Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do. — Gorilla Zoe

These were times when all were judged squarely and fairly on their musical tastes, and a personal music collection read as private medical records. — Morrissey

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing — Suzanne Ciani

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. — Seth Godin

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. — Mystikal

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left ... I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone. — Aretha Franklin

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. — Joan Jett

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good. — Grieves

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. — Stephen Sondheim

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music. — Alex Scally

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records. — Ryan Adams

I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music. — Clive Davis

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. — John Darnielle

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music. — Five For Fighting

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record". — Warryn Campbell

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus. — Prince

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to. — Rita Ora

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. — Herbie Hancock

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. — Seth Troxler

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there. — Charlie Rich

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall. — Grant Evans

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3. — King Tuff

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music. — Pantha Du Prince

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever. — Arthur Sullivan

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans. — Gerard Way

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

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. — Norah Jones

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives. — Charlotte Rae

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States. — Mick Fleetwood

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa

I don't believe in having bands for solo records. — Mick Jagger

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful. — Patrick Wolf

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. — Ice-T

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will. — Thalia Zedek

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done. — Don Cornelius

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record. — Andrew Ripp

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. — Kesha

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

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God. — Linda Barnes

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record. — Nas

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. — Stephen W. Thompson

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another. — Chick Corea

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out. — Gary Burton

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records. — Schoolboy Q

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life. — Laura Marling

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years. — Beck

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. — John Lennon

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. — Jason Mraz

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records. — Ice-T

I try to record music that people can relate to. — Jason Aldean

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. — Mark Kozelek

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed. — Jonathan Lethem

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it. — Snoop Dogg

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me. — El-P

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs — Lenny Breau

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast. — Girl Talk

Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. — A.P.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it. — Joe Budden

Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too. — Nathan Followill

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records. — Brody Armstrong

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. — Larry Mullen Jr.

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone. — Tom Odell

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. — Vance Gilbert

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. — Gus Van Sant

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. — Ron Currie Jr.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way. — Norah Jones

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself. — Lindsay Lohan

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio. — Ariel Rechtshaid

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

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. — Colin Hanks

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music. — Girl Talk

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it. — Zooey Deschanel

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. — Barry Gibb

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover. — DJ Spooky

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. — Jim Lee

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music. — Tom DeLonge

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural. — Linda Ronstadt

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. — Marilyn Manson

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. — Stan Getz

I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. — Steve Earle

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel. — Joaquin Phoenix

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company. — Sarah Vaughan

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything — Marian McPartland

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section. — Jim Dickinson

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. — Chuck Ragan

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. — Herb Alpert

I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what. — Sam Hunt

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. — Dee Dee Ramone

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore. — Juliana Hatfield

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. — John Legend

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. — Will Oldham

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick. — Aaron Zigman

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything. — Mike Gordon

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells? — Juliana Hatfield

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. — Bill Laswell