#records

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it. ↗

— Brian Eno

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We learn from failure, not from success! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#experience #learning #mistakes #records #wisdom

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive. ↗

— Roy Barnes

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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

#community #especially #legislators #million #music

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#filling #forms #hours #keeping #out

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records. ↗

— Richard Reeves

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I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records. ↗

— Jerry Rice

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Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#easier #fun #getting #keeps #making

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing. ↗

— Dee Snider

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