If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.
I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio. Who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.
I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree. ) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.
If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows and by mail order as an independent artist. The greatest stores that have character and include a much wider range of music of music are all independent, mom and pop stores.
I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.
In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.
Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.
The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.