One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.
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.
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.
I never excluded any genre on my first record.
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.
Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.
Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.
It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.
I think my records will always tend to be approachable.
My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.