It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
Etta James

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
John Owen

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
Stevie Nicks

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
John Fahey

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
John Fahey

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
Cher

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

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
Keith Richards

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
Dylan Thomas

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Bill Wyman

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.
Elton John

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
Elton John

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
Janet Jackson

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
Janet Jackson

We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.
Ben Harper

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
Ben Harper

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.
Chris Brown

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
David Brin

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
Tommy Chong