"You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say."
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"It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge."
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"I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly."
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"In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time."
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"When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers."
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"How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts."
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"I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record."
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"I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out."
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"I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from."
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"I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage."
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"There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself."
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"Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway."
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"The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do."
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"Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success."
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"To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records."
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"We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be."
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"I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back."
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"I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music."
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"So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me."
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"When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels."
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