Albums Quotes

Record the album after the tour.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.

I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.