"And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy."
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"In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate."
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"I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day."
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"I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with."
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"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved."
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"It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club."
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"I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best."
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"Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it."
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"My roots are in my record player."
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"People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood."
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"My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked."
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"We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking."
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"This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many."
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"Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts."
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"People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!"
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"I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that."
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"I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record."
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"A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair."
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"I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records."
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"If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance."
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