Albums Quotes

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

I just want to make good music that, you know, appeals to all people, man. I want to branch out and you know just have a lot of multiplatinum albums.

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

Don’t play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher) Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.