"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies."
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"If you look at the history of unexplained phenomena that was first explained by spiritual, mystical forces, the track record is not very good for the mystical, magical explanations to survive against more quote "mundane" physical explanations."
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"We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image."
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"I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record."
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"I don't have the best dating track record."
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"It's so cool to get to talk to fans, to find out where they're from and why they bought the records."
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"Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting."
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"Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict."
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"Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive."
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"I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription to Down Beat when I was 12. And I'd spend a lot of time in front of the minor, miming records."
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"No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online."
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"Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit."
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"Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector."
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"Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it."
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"Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure."
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"History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks."
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"I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record of declassified documents, and they are mostly concerned with keeping what the government does secret from its own population. It's mostly defense of the power system from its own population. Very little is authentic security."
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"I definitely see myself making classic R&B records with somewhat of a trendy vibe to it. I definitely wouldn't say trap."
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"I don't get involved in record label politics."
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"At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date."
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