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"Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."
"You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world."
"Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record."
"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."
"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology."
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"Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today."
"He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk."
"The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way."
"I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record."
"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
"If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records."
"I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns."
"You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up."
"Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'"
"Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend."
"I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won"
"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."
"Every album I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do."
"Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks"
"Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body."
"All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking."
"I don't take breaks, I just break records"
"Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery."
"Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed."
"There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store."
