Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

- Alex Van Halen

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

- Bryan Adams

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

- Bruno Mars

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

- Bob Dylan

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

- Billie Holiday

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

- Beck

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

- B. B. King

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

- Ann Wagner

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

- Ann Wilson

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

- Adele

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

- Aaron Neville

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

- Art Alexakis

If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.

- Albert Hammond, Jr.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

- Adam Peaty

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

- Ashton Eaton

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

- Al Jarreau

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

- Aisha Tyler

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

- Alicia Keys

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

- Alanis Morissette