Albums Quotes

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.

I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

It's easier to make a living doing shows then it is to sell albums.

Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."