diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index b530bee..4e75583 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -761,6 +761,9 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (quiet)
+		return 0;
+
 	fprintf(stderr, "[ perf record: Woken up %ld times to write data ]\n", waking);
 
 	/*
@@ -820,6 +823,7 @@
 		    "do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording"),
 	OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "don't print any message"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "stat", &inherit_stat,
 		    "per thread counts"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &sample_address,