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I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

— Paul McCartney

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

— Jenny Lewis

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

— Jakob Dylan

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

— Ashton Eaton

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

— William J. H. Boetcker

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

— Patty Loveless

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

— Earl Campbell

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

— Akon

I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.

— Flume

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

— Phil Anselmo

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter