Albums Quotes

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.

I've written about one song on several different albums.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

Ice-T is so old that the first thing he bought with the money from his album sales was his freedom.

I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"

I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.