Albums Quotes

I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.

I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream.

I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

All my album artwork is body painting.

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.