I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.
Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
Everybody recommended me to Sinatra and Don Costa, because everybody was enjoying my music. I got a big following going on. Nino (Tempo) told Don Costa "you gotta come see this guy. " And that's how Don Costa heard about me, through Nino Tempo. Then, Don Costa brought me to the attention of Frank Sinatra and Reprise Records.
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc. , depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition reports, as they record the contents of their intuitions. But they need not go into whether an intuition has been enjoyed.
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.
I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.
I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose. . . with or without the permission of the artist.
My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.
Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.