Albums Quotations

The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.

I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

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

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

I think what's cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it's the one band to me that their sound is immortal. It never sounds corny to me. You can go back and listen to some Pantera and Metallica albums, and you're like, 'OK, great music.' But Slayer, you go back, and they always sound fresh and hard as hell.

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.

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.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

I want to have a huge album that's, like, 18 or 19 tracks. I hate those albums where there's only, like, ten tracks, and you're left thinking, 'Is this it?'

'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

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

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

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 enjoy staying home with friends more than going out. The other night, for example, my girlfriends and I stayed in listening to some '90s rap - my favorite kind. We were in the Hamptons and made it an all-Biggie weekend, all of his albums on repeat. I loved it.

Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.

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

Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

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

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

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.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.

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.

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

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

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

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

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.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

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

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

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

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.