Album Artwork Quotes

#1. Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Torquato Tasso

#2. It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Ben Folds

#3. The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

Mark Hoppus

#4. I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Aimee Bender

#5. J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was a huge influence on the visuals for 'Homecoming King.'

Hasan Minhaj

#6. The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#7. I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

St. Lucia

#8. Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

B.J. The Chicago Kid

#10. The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

#11. I'll be in hell before you start breakfast - let her rip!

Tom Ketchum

#12. It is likely your own eyes were closed when you were born, so that you left the safe place of your mother's womb - or, if you are a seahorse, your father's yolk sac - and joined the treachery of the world without seeing exactly where you were going.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Jacob Burckhardt

#14. Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

Pam Tillis

#15. Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

Patrick Yee

#16. I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

Chris Martin

#17. Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on.

Heinrich Heine

#18. It was an annoying name to have. People tended to spell in Mangus, rhymes with Angus. I always corrected them: No, it's Magnus, rhymes with swagness. At which point they would stare at me blankly.

Rick Riordan

#19. My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.

Roberto Aguire

#20. I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

Paloma Faith

#21. All my album artwork is body painting.

Kimbra

#22. Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

Arsene Wenger