I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.
It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
With this project ["This Is Mike Stud"] in general, I tried to put my life on record. All of these things I'm going through right now, I used to dream about and didn't think could ever happen to me.
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.
Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.
For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
I just find it really shitty that someone who never really produced anything, musically speaking, can just say, "I don't really like it. " It just sucks because you put so much work into a record and someone disapproves. "
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.