Albums Quotes

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

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

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME.

I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

It feels great to have a #1 album.

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

You know, I've made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It's fine. I've got a house, and I've got dogs that I love. I don't need anything else.

Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

My first album was completed in three months.

If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.