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"There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it."
"They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't."
"In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record."
"I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears."
"If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is."
"Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat."
"...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world."
"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."
"I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with."
"Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory."
"I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers."
"Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled."
"My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like."
"Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV."
"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)"
"Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life."
"The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore."
"I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him."
"I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box."
"For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?"
