When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs..
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States..
I just turn the record in. I don't think about the commercialism of it, but rather what's getting me off. That's why I stay in this business, because….
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal..
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sen….
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention..
Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records..
Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over..
You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record..
I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, ….
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s..
A lot of reasons I didn't do records with people is because I never wanted their light to reflect on me..
I don't get involved in record label politics..
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistak….
My sympathies go out to the young performers today because they are under a microscope in a way I wasn't. Now everybody's got a camera phone and can ….
I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better t….
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter..
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fire….
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they ….
The record industry is a world within itself..
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time..