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I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

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.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high. It's going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - it's going to take a new president.

If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

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

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.