For a Jewish guy I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded that makes me feel so good and full and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
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.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
I have one piece of music since 1997 and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it and where it was recorded what year it was done what they were listening to and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
Of all the songs I've recorded 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance ' on the other hand was written and recorded in only four months so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
A strange thing is memory and hope one looks backward and the other forward one is of today the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
I recorded my hair this morning tonight I'm watching the highlights.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history) men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
I recorded a song called I Fall to Pieces and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record and it's called Crazy!
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
In 29 years I had recorded over 2 200 songs. I was amazed.
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick and some of that stuff was made on wire not even tape let alone digital.