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Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records? -- Ezra Taft Benson
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music. -- Tom DeLonge
Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source. -- Irving Azoff
I'm always going to do that - record and make music. -- Norah Jones
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. -- Joan Jett
My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. -- Mystikal
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. -- Barry Gibb
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. -- Phil Ramone
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. -- Adam Ant
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. -- Carson Daly
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. -- Pat Metheny
I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record. -- Brody Armstrong
Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of. -- Martin Gore
I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. -- Teena Marie
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record. -- Beck
Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it. -- G-Eazy
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. -- Andrew Eldritch
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. -- Gary Wright
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. -- Will Oldham
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself. -- Agnes Obel
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it. -- Lyle Lovett
...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. -- A.P.
Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. -- Marilyn Manson
I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music. -- Alex Scally
Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. -- Jim Lee
There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz. -- Herbie Hancock
All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records. -- Brody Armstrong
All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records. -- Brody Armstrong
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. -- John Lennon
Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. -- Seth Troxler
I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records. -- Ryan Adams
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. -- Kesha
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. -- Ice T
I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out. -- Gary Burton
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. -- Herb Alpert
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. -- John Legend
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever. -- Arthur Sullivan
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever. -- Arthur Sullivan
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. -- Dee Dee Ramone
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. -- Jason Mraz
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. -- Bill Laswell
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. -- Chuck Ragan
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything -- Marian McPartland
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there. -- Charlie Rich
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. -- Frank Zappa
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records. -- Ice T
The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music. -- Girl Talk
Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself. -- Lindsay Lohan
My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. -- Gus Van Sant
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States. -- Mick Fleetwood
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it. -- Snoop Dogg
I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life. -- Laura Marling
I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me. -- El-P
I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records. -- Stephen Sondheim
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. -- Steve Earle
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes. -- Krist Novoselic
I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records. -- Schoolboy Q
A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records. -- Marc Bolan
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done. -- Don Cornelius
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. -- Francois Truffaut
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. -- Mark Kozelek
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. -- Colin Hanks
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. -- Steve Vai
I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog. -- Paul Lansky
The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh. -- Pusha T
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. -- Norah Jones
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive. -- Buzz Osborne
So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music. -- Stephen W. Thompson
Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do. -- Gorilla Zoe
Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore. -- Juliana Hatfield
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. -- Courtney Love
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation. -- Jerry Garcia
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records. -- Lily Allen
My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around. -- Lenny Breau
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio. -- Ariel Rechtshaid
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what. -- Sam Hunt
It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea. -- Dr. Dre
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. -- Robbie Robertson

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