Albums Quotes

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)

I've appeared on some other people's albums.

KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.