I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a HawkwindSabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.
Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there. ' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.
I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.
I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. . . . Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three CONTINENTS
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.
I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.