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I will not manage a studio in Hollywood. There is some track record of people who have done that bef...
DIDIER LOMBARD

He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir...
JOSH TURNER Honestly, this is the best record - obviously - that we've ever done in the studio. You can't argue ...
MARC ROBERGE

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created ...
GARY CHERONE We recorded over a dozen songs we had just learned the day before. I knew before I went in to record...
JOHN CORBETT

Always singing for the great state, for sure, ... But, you know, you don't want to do a song just be...
GEORGE STRAIT He handed me a record out of his backpack that he'd just made in San Francisco. We played that recor...
JOE ELY Those kids knew they were going to have to step up without Chad in the meet. I was very happy with h...
KIP HOFFMAN They had actually been at Cornell the week before doing the exact same thing they were doing at our ...
JASON KASSOY

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that wer...
ALICE COOPER For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people w...
GLORIA TREVI We are very proud of what we've done. Before we went into the studio we were genuinely worried that ...
GARY LIGHTBODY

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the st...
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. For lack of a better word, we jammed a bit in the studio, which is something we've never done before...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I can remember nights before games when they were fourth graders, and they'd go to bed with their un...
DAVE FOUCH [The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's hel...
WILL DANFORTH Almost from the start, people were asking for furniture, and things were coming in so fast that we n...
HELEN SCANNELL We don't want to overstay our welcome. If we were gonna go on tour next summer, for example, we feel...
FRANK BLACK My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
MARC ALMOND As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.
KIM ANDERSON We just wanted to all work together and collaborate, and that was the main impetus informing the rec...
DAVE JOHNSTON We knew going in how strong they were and that we'd have to go after them with some big skill moves....
GREG BEAUPRE There is no record that they were arrested. These people were never in the jail.
FRED GELSTON

Obviously, Chris has the physical component in spades. We were confident in him, but we also weren't...
ALEC BALDWIN The tests were inconclusive. We're having additional tests done by Cornell University, and I'm hopin...
SAL SINATRA

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Hai...
KATHERINE DUNHAM All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a com...
DAVID COVERDALE If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainl...
TAYLOR DAYNE We had opportunities to make an album before but they were trying to change what we were doing, ... ...
CARLOS GONZALEZ I enjoy going into the studio and working with really good musicians and not telling them what I wan...
DARDEN SMITH

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.
KENNETH G. WILSON We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the ne...
KEENEN IVORY WAYANS I'm extremely pleased with how well we performed. That's a lot of points for how many events we were...
MARK ROBISON We had a lot of play calls for Chris and were trying to get him the ball, but they played great defe...
C.J. WATSON

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will per...
KEVIN HART We decided the only way to make a cover record special was to do the songs that influenced us when w...
RICKY PHILLIPS His approach was that we didn't play any of the songs for the band members until they got to the stu...
GREG TROOPER In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.
JOHN KATZENBACH We were in our press offense. We told Chris to attack the basket. They cut him off, and he pulled up...
LUTHER RILEY Refinery levels are not up to where they were before Katrina. We'll probably see prices edge higher ...
GREGG LASKOSKI We wanted him to have the record, he wanted to have the record, (and) the linemen wanted the record ...
MIKE HOLMGREN There were a lot of very good performances, but we expect good performances this time of the season....
DENNIS DRISCOLL We've got a bunch of new songs: 'Ashes and Cinders,' 'Queer Pressure,' 'Cut Your Tongue Out,' those ...
JASON HILL It took a while once we started recording ('In Your Honor') for us to really know if we were actuall...
CHRIS SHIFLETT Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to ...
NEIL DIAMOND We were looking for a way to do the things that had been done by the PAC before. We felt we were wel...
TERESA MOORE

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care abou...
GRAHAM NASH I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspiration...
DAVID TALBOT The explanations I heard were that they just didn't call many people up. Mostly, they just didn't wa...
BILLY SYLVESTER

A lot of bands in music history have had titles that were easy for radio DJs. We wanted to have titl...
PETE WENTZ Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men
WILLIAM WATSON We have people in place that have done the Olympic Trials before, have done big meets before,
GREG ERWIN The younger guys looked like they had life on Monday. They were hungry. In preseason they were hungr...
ABREE JONES It's going to be harder than it was last year. We were able to sneak up on people last year, with ou...
CHRIS DUHON There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN

I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they we...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK They (USA) were not ready for that kind of success, and record stores all over the country ran out o...
CARL GIAMMARESE Before record stores became Nazi-infested bunkers that were full of people who gave you dirty looks ...
BEN CLARK

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They wer...
ROBIN S. SHARMA We were trying to kick it away from Graves and we kicked it over there to Chris Fountain, ... The ne...
DEREK ANDERSON The record company isn't really even looking for Christian songs. They're just looking for talent. T...
ANTHONY MARTINEZ On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning...
ALI SMITH A lot of people were really tired for class the next day. I've never seen anything like that before.
EMILY BODART

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive ass...
MAYER HAWTHORNE A lot of people were cheering us up when we were up there. They were laughing, dancing. They were ni...
DAX MAIER The relay team was ranked sixth going in, so they performed where they were supposed to. We were hop...
DANA SCHWARTING They're definitely hungry to get back in the studio to make another record; they've got a lot of mat...
DAVE HOLMES During the parade, we didn't have any foot traffic. But after the parade, our entire store was fille...
ERIN ARCHBOLD

I think we were kind of aggravated at the way bands only write titles that will fit inside DJs' mout...
PETE WENTZ When [we were told] we were not guilty, my eyes filled up. If I wasn't a man, I probably would have ...
SCOTT EVANS They were involved in about a monthlong planning cycle with us. And they were well-integrated with u...
GEORGE CASEY I think we had a much more realistic perception of what we do. We were also less afraid of typecast ...
NICKEL CREEK

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio p...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We w...
JOHN BONHAM Over the past year people considering running for president [at UP] might feel that they don't have ...
CHARLES ANDREWS

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthri...
ARLO GUTHRIE It just happened., ... People were everywhere looking for a place to stay and somehow, they found us...
LISA WILSON They were caught in the blast. There was a lot of rubble around and they were basically scared. They...
JOHN SPARROW There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Count...
CHET ATKINS They were just delightful people, and we spent some time with them the next day, ... We just started...
KAREN TEMPLETON Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we...
MATHIEU KASSOVITZ We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before i...
KEN MEHLMAN Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,)...
BIBLE I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got...
GLENN HUGHES The Nazis shouldn't have taken them away and done that to them because they were good people.
JENNIFER RIVERA They told you to talk to the people next to you because these were the people you'd be pushed up aga...
ANDREW GREEN They were in our face all night. They might have broken Miami's record for sacks. We could never get...
BINKY WALDROP That's how we came up with the name, it was songs that were from the beginning of our universe as mu...
RICKY PHILLIPS Before the whole storm happened, when we were in camp, we were ready for the season to start. Everyt...
BRANDON SPINCER

The first record was really just us making music and laughing a lot and having a good time in a stud...
COREY TAYLOR I thought going into the season, we were going to be somewhere around fifth place, and that's where ...
JAMIE BETANCUR We tried to record in the studio, and we didn't have the magic. We need the audience to have the mag...
JAMIE JANOVER I haven't done that in awhile. It was twofold. First, we were missing our free throws. And it just s...
LONNIE BARTLEY

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strate...
ANDY GROVE We were absolutely aiming to capture that Sun Studio sound.
JOHN ALTENBURGH In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w...
BENMONT TENCH Historically, the three-month period before the Fed goes on hold in the rate hiking cycle, stocks ha...
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