Albums Quotes

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

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

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.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.

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.

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.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.

If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

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.

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.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

You don't get bored making an album.

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.