Albums Quotes

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

I've always got about four albums in my head.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now."

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

Who really needs a new album from me?

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.