"A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth."
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"I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone."
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"I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry."
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"If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from."
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"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."
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"I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me."
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"I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal."
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"Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful."
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"My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that."
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"I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record."
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"I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out."
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"Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves."
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"I’ve got no criminal record."
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"People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something."
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"I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right."
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"Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners."
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"I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write."
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"The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it."
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"Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do."
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"One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."
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