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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source. -- Irving Azoff
Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it. -- Mary Lee Settle
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. -- Edward Abbey
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it. -- Todd Rundgren
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.[Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter, February 8 1963] -- John F. Kennedy
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay. -- Edmund Spenser
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee. -- Serge Schmemann
Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things. -- Peter Frampton
I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights. -- Jay London
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. -- Hervey Allen
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. -- Edward Snowden
It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded. -- Rodney King
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. -- Arthur Erickson
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in. -- Joe Nichols
I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy! -- Patsy Cline
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. -- Robert Smith
We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information. -- Ashton Kutcher
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. -- Henry Rollins
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. -- Daniel Burnham
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us. -- Albert Murray
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. -- Henry Rollins
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord. -- Jerry Reed
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. -- Keri Hilson
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. -- Alfred Noyes
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. -- Barton Gellman
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. -- Roger Waters
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place. -- Florence Welch
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. -- Lindsey Buckingham
I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine. -- James Blunt
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.' -- Laura Mvula
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. -- Damian Marley
What is not recorded is not remembered. -- Benazir Bhutto
I've never recorded anything I didn't like. -- Aretha Franklin
Civil War was recorded by the original line-up -- Dizzy Reed
I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable. -- Arthur Rimbaud
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. -- George Santayana
Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded. -- Judah the Prince
Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978. -- Greg Ginn
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. -- Daniel Burnham
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf
Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. -- Rita Coolidge
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed. -- Kate Smith
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. -- Trofim Lysenko
I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights -- Jay London
For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums. -- Barry Manilow
A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write. -- Joan Jett
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it? -- Cecil Taylor
The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother. -- Celine Dion
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. -- Neal Schon
When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing. -- John Deacon
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. -- Thomas Carlyle
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. -- Stan Getz
Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone. -- Erwin Rommel
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? -- Thomas Carlyle
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point -- Robert Mapplethorpe
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home. -- Jim Messina
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. -- James Lovelock
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. -- Henry L. Stimson
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. -- Chuck Mangione
Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. -- Lana Del Rey
Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation. -- Ron Holland
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. -- Pat Metheny
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. -- Beck
It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. -- Dave Edmunds
Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. -- George Strait
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. -- David Eagleman
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them -- John Lennon
I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now. -- Skitch Henderson
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. -- Gary North
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya. -- Tommy Chong
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. -- John Thorn
Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take. -- Stuart Price
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? -- Robert Breault
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school. -- Christina Aguilera
We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums. -- Mick Jagger
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. -- Edmund Burke
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over. -- Glenn Branca
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves. -- Smokey Robinson
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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). -- Paul Klee
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. -- Charles Spurgeon
We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that. -- Bruce Johnston
The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition. -- William E. Gladstone
Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next. -- Dan Hill
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. -- Natalie Goldberg
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human. -- Layne Staley
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then. -- Dennis Brown
If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it. -- Lauryn Hill
I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. -- Van Morrison
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story. -- Petra Haden
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. -- Chris Hedges
Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things -- Mike Teti
We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record. -- Kenneth Lacovara
To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded. -- Jerry Cantrell
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. -- Thomas Ken
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em. -- John Lee Hooker
I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. -- Jimmy Carl Black
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. -- Joseph J. Romm
The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played. -- Jim Dickinson
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969. -- Patti Smith
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. -- Eric Schmidt
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. -- John Mellencamp
There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time. -- Leona Lewis
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last. -- Dick Dale
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. -- Dennis Prager
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. -- Joseph Roth
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. -- Betty Buckley
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. -- Eve Ensler
In fact, among the 1000 titles which I have recorded in the past 35 years, there are less than 10% of classical titles. -- Richard Clayderman
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events." -- Arthur Erickson
I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for. -- Suzi Quatro
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I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. -- Mitch Albom

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