#records

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#done #goes #just #keep #like

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#because #believing #could #i #i tried

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#did #entitled #get #little #little money

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way. ↗

— Ben Webster

#because #better #check #could #done

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#american #american people #archivist #assure #evolving

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. ↗

— Edward Weston

#always #bach #discordant #fresh #fugue

I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Record’s for something ridiculous like juggling poison-tipped porcupines, playing the piano blindfolded while tightrope walking in tights, or throwing a rubber ball in a circular rim adorned with a dangling white nylon net. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #guinness-book-of-world-records #piano #funny

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#music #records #music

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#emotions #language #lie #metaphorically #moods

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#brazilian #brazilian music #during #got #i