Spector Quotes & Sayings

Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink. — Ike Turner

I never tried to kill myself or anything. — Ronnie Spector

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility. — Phil Spector

I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts. — Warren Spector

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record. — Ronnie Spector

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming. — Warren Spector

Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer. — Cullen Bunn

The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell. — Jon Landau

Stage performing is a dying art form. — Ronnie Spector

The people need to feel the music. — Ronnie Spector

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all. — David Hepworth

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors. — Robert Spector

$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much. — Warren Spector

I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do! — Warren Spector

Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.' — Warren Spector

I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. — Warren Spector

Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that. — Warren Spector

Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in. — Warren Spector

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard — Warren Spector

New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is
murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit. — Bill Maher

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.' — Dee Dee Ramone

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them. — Darlene Love

thought of the $300,000 waiting in my — Ashley Spector

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. — Ronnie Spector

God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil. — Phil Spector

In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life. — Warren Spector

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future. — Warren Spector

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. — Brian Wilson

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby. — Ronnie Spector

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone. — Ronnie Spector

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore. — Ronnie Spector

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. — Warren Spector

I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math! — Warren Spector

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. — Warren Spector

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. — Warren Spector

I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun. — Warren Spector

My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. — Warren Spector

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done — Warren Spector

Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. — Warren Spector

It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day. — Robert Spector

If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be. — Warren Spector

Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. They are important not only for the food, drink, clothing, and tools they sell us, but also for providing us with intellectual stimulation, social interaction, and connection to our communities. We must have mom & pop stores because we are social animals. We crave to be part of the marketplace. — Robert Spector

Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. — Warren Spector

I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound. — Darlene Love

When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running. — Warren Spector

I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats. — Warren Spector

Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset. — Robert Spector

My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We've had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity. — Rich Sommer

My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was ... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say. — Warren Spector

What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk. — Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski

I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money. — Warren Spector

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right? — Warren Spector

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. — Warren Spector

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair. — Ronnie Spector

Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued. — Robert Spector

The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible. — Warren Spector

Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll. — Warren Spector

I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile. — Warren Spector

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. — Ronnie Spector

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. — Ronnie Spector

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. — Phil Spector

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can. — Warren Spector

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves. — Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration. — Ronnie Spector

I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound. — Lou Adler

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own. — Ronnie Spector

As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game. — Warren Spector

I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question. — Warren Spector

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. — Jerry Only

The more people who game, the better for everyone. — Warren Spector

Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before. — Warren Spector

Are you human? Are you sure? — K.B. Spector

I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. — Warren Spector

Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is! — Warren Spector

I'm not a bona fide human being. — Phil Spector

I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.' — Warren Spector

We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? — Warren Spector

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going. — Ronnie Spector

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists. — Johnny Rivers

Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use. — Warren Spector

The gun went off accidentally. — Phil Spector

I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy. — Warren Spector

The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy. — Warren Spector

Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air. — Warren Spector

Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game. — Warren Spector

In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white. — Warren Spector

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me. — Warren Spector

I'm sad but excited for the future. — Warren Spector

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here. — Ronnie Spector

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank. — Warren Spector

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. — Warren Spector

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul. — Phil Spector

The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me. — Warren Spector

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge. — Warren Spector

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming. — Warren Spector

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record. — Brian Wilson

Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company. — Warren Spector

The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made. — Warren Spector

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game. — Warren Spector

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! — Warren Spector