"The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished."
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"I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened."
"Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records."
"That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing."
"Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!"
"So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record."
"I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well."
"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."
"Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it."
"Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did."
"I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful."
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
"The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated."
"I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful."
"I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time."
"Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history."
"It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume."
"Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it."
"Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby."
"My main thing is to chill with my kids. My daughter loves to work, as well-she loves to record and stuff-so I like to work with her."