"Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear."
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"In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie. It's part of the new currency, which seems to be 'how many followers you have on Instagram'."
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"History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs"
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"The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record."
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"When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best."
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"Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to."
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"I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such."
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"What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame."
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"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
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"Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made."
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"I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for."
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"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father."
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"I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time."
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"I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll."
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"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."
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"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
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"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
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"There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life."
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"The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'"
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"But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go."
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