And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
I wanted to be videotaped.
I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.
I write in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done.
Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
What people don't realize when they talk about our lineup changes is that the original Against Me! broke up in 2001. It never recorded a full-length record.
The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.
The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.
Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.
It’s terribly important to write your own history before the historians get a crack at it.
I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own.
Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
