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"See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write."
"Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can."
"A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value."
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record."
"We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school"
"My real life helped me sell a lot of records."
"God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'"
"Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle."
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
"literature is the record of our discontent."
"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain."
"I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings."
"What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?"
"Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time."
"I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power."
"The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?"
"The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings."
"Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size."
"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."
"People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud."
