"All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking."
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"I don't take breaks, I just break records"
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"Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery."
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"Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed."
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"There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store."
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"I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton."
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"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."
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"I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records."
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"When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."
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"I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me in the streets saying, "Yo Khaled, make another 'I'm So Hood.' We love that record so much."
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"Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown."
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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
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"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."
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"A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner."
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"My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone."
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"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
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"Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable."
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"There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission."
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