Albums Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

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.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

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

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 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.

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.

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've appeared on some other people's albums.

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.

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

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.

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

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

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

I never liked making albums.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.