"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true."
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"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."
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"You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label."
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"I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while."
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"Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement."
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"I make music that makes you dance, so I mean, it's appropriate, you know what I'm saying? I make the kind of music that DJs can grab a hold of and spin the record and people just love rocking out to the big Snoop D O double G."
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"What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions."
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"I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down."
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"Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush"
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"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
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"I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records."
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"Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35."
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"I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived."
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"You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system."
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"A record is a message, timeless."
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"Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography."
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"Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive."
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"I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows."
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"When I die, just keep playing the records."
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"Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment."
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