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That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now. -- Johnny Cash
I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M. -- Tom Waits
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. -- Renee Fleming
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. -- Van Morrison
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. -- Dexter Scott King
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul. -- Joe Perry
Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. -- David Byrne
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. -- Jamie Muir
Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world. -- Franklin Graham
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. -- April Winchell
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. -- Henry Rollins
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful. -- Leslie Mann
When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. -- Dave Grohl
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. -- Moby
The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show. -- Tom Chapin
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on. -- Bob Woodward
I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record. -- Adrian Belew
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. -- Todd Rundgren
I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. -- Leo Ornstein
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. -- Priyanka Chopra
Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound. -- Eric Whitacre
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
One of the greatest live recordings, I think, in the history of the world is Ray Charles in Atlanta... And they didn't even have a big mobile recording thing set up. The word on the street was they only had like two microphones, one for the band and one for him. Perfect recordings. I think it's mono. -- Robbie Robertson
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. -- Marlo Thomas
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out. -- Brian Eno
My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location. -- Josh Turner
I always dress up for recordings. -- Jefferson Mays
I like to stay home and listen to recordings. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi. -- Feist
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage. -- M. Ward
DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more. -- Adrian Belew
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation. -- Richard Morris
I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy. -- Mick Barr
The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. -- Michael Dolan
I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings. -- Ariel Rechtshaid
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. -- Moby
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions. -- Jack Irons
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings. -- Loyd Auerbach
The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played. -- Jim Dickinson
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over. -- Bill Kurtis
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. -- Tony Burgess
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers. -- Jimmy Carl Black
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence. -- Will Oldham
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. -- Evan Parker
I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger. -- Marc-Andre Hamelin
I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it. -- Stephen Sondheim
There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds. -- Doug Martsch
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance. -- Todd Rundgren
The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence. -- Pankaj Mishra
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered. -- Charles Rosen
I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings. -- Megan Martha White
I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it. -- Jose James
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. -- Norah Jones
There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them. -- Damien Rice
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on. -- Michel Legrand
You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. -- Joy Harjo
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. -- Jamie Wyeth
Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in. -- Guy Maddin
I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing. -- Katherine Shindle
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility. -- Bill Dixon
Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere. -- Allen Covert
Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted. -- Peter Asher
I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down. -- Mo Rocca
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player. -- James Young
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard. -- Elvis Costello
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there. -- Phil Lesh
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. -- Miroslav Vitous
We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music. -- Jose Gonzalez
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. -- Stephen King
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience. -- Aaron Copland
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things. -- Matana Roberts
I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great. -- King Tuff
I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever. -- Julia Kent
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. -- Andy Griffith
People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. -- Tanya Huff
Throughout the '50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service. -- Shawn Amos
If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and is comprised of official documents or recordings, then WikiLeaks will publish it. -- Julian Assange
I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself. -- Gloria Gaynor
The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America. -- Neil Portnow

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