Album Cover Quotes

#1. I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

Tom Felton

#2. I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

Mark David Chapman

#3. I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

Bradford Cox

#4. Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

DJ Spooky

#5. I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

Robbie Robertson

#6. I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Bruce Springsteen

#7. I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

Jon Bon Jovi

#8. In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

Steve Earle

#9. Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott

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

Bruce Dickinson

#11. What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

Zachary Cole Smith

#12. I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

Julie London

#13. Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Robert Fripp

#14. When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

Jerry Hall

#15. You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

Lynda Barry

#16. Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

John Mellencamp

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

Kristoffer Rygg

#18. One very big album, bound in expensive leather with a gold-stamped title on the cover - This is our life: The Austers - was totally blank inside.

Paul Auster

#19. The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

Victor LaValle

#20. I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

Sabrina Bryan

#21. If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it
teach yourself to be impatient.

Gurbaksh Chahal

#22. She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She's the most solitary person I've ever known.

Ally Condie

#23. [A]nd there are few things as threatening to us as individuals as a person who perceives our worst flaws, especially when those flaws are all they see.

Jobie Hughes

#24. I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Lil' Wayne

#25. If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

Mike Shinoda

#26. The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Jerry Only

#28. I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

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

Jeff Buckley