Albums Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

You're only as good as your last album.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

I like to make great albums.

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.