#cord

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#brilliant #college #continue #could #down

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#high #hold #i #performing #pleasure

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City. ↗

— Scott Walker

#ago #america #around #been #businesses

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. ↗

— Larry Wall

#almost #drive #honda #i #off

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#came #career #created #disco #during

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#his #i #i think #last #pile

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#automatically #draw #either #good #guaranteed