Album Quotes

#1. Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

Cormega

#2. About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

Billy Corgan

#3. Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.

Criss Angel

#4. AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Joe Perry

#5. All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Erik Parker

#6. I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Jeff Lynne

#7. It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Neil Young

#8. I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

Ashley Tisdale

#9. On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

Avril Lavigne

#10. I'm very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it's a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.

Alyson Stoner

#11. Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to the Saturday Club to Rockport Lodge to working at the newspaper to meeting Aaron.

Anita Diamant

#12. I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.

Lady Gaga

#13. I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

Daron Malakian

#14. I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

Alex Lifeson

#15. Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

LaToya London

#16. The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

Max Tundra

#17. I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

Denis Leary

#18. Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Annie Lennox

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

Terry Southern

#20. I was going through a break up. I was depressed ... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

Damon Albarn

#21. My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Robert Klein

#22. I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

Steve Jones

#23. I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

Zendaya

#24. Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming.

Neil Gaiman

#25. The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world ... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Herb Alpert

#26. On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

Eberhard Weber

#27. The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Eminem

#28. He was supposed to record in the studio this afternoon, and pow - he gets shot. This fuckin' album is cursed, I tell you.

Olivia Cunning

#29. To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.

Phil Collins

#30. When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

Erin McKeown

#31. What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Renita D'Silva

#32. I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

Prince

#33. Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

Shelley Berman

#34. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

Suzy Bogguss

#35. Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.

Glenn Hughes

#36. I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Isaac Marion

#37. I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Lady Gaga

#38. It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

Tyrese Gibson

#39. I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

Cory Monteith

#40. One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

Debbie Gibson

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

Brett Eldredge

#42. My wife has them all in a vault ... a copy of every album.

Jerry Goldsmith

#43. If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

Chris Isaak

#44. I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Steve Vai

#45. Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

Bootsy Collins

#46. Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

David Lee Roth

#47. I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

John Varvatos

#48. I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

Gary Numan

#49. I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.

Kelly Clarkson

#50. I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

Naima Adedapo

#51. Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Niall Horan

#52. We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

Travis Barker

#53. I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

Jens Lekman

#54. One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Afrojack

#55. So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

Kanye West

#56. 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.

Lupe Fiasco

#57. 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!

Alfred Molina

#58. In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

Nick Lowe

#59. I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Van Morrison

#60. I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I'm not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during 'Idol.' I'd like to give back with something like that.

David Archuleta

#61. They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.

Deborah Cox

#62. Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

DJ Shadow

#63. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Bill Burr

#64. I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

Josh Turner

#65. You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

Martin Gore

#66. If this were a real Metallica album, "Enter Sandman" would be the worst song on the album, not the best.

Stan Jones

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

Chingy

#68. I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.

Erik Hassle

#69. I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

Estelle

#70. Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Richard Marx

#71. Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

M.I.A.

#72. Who really needs a new album from me?

Elton John

#73. J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.

Jennifer Lopez

#74. I played an album called Space Oddity by David Bowie, which, in its simple patterned measure of time, was actually quite enjoyable.

Matt Haig

#75. My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#76. The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

Yelawolf

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

Luke Bryan

#78. I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

Johnny Ramone

#79. I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.

Duncan Sheik

#80. I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Miriam Makeba

#81. 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.

Adam Ant

#82. The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

Al Kooper

#83. I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Dr. Dre

#84. At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 & Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.

Bow Wow

#85. I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Ginger Baker

#86. We all did. But running away from it never made me feel better. Pretending it hadn't happened was slowly killing me." Sarah hugged the album to her chest, her eyes filling with tears again. "Thank you for this. Ignore the tears. You've made me

Ruth Cardello

#87. There will be four ancillary shows on the MyMusic channel, and we'll be updating an entire blog with up-to-the-minute music news. You can visit it like BuzzFeed or Pitchfork and get album reviews. It's all as part of the sitcom experience, written by the characters.

Benny Fine

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

Alice Cooper

#89. I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book ... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

Ace Frehley

#90. There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

Niall Horan

#91. My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.

Brandi Carlile

#92. I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

Lenny Kravitz

#93. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Marina And The Diamonds

#94. To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

Jason Mraz

#95. I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

Al Yankovic

#96. Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

Vanessa Carlton

#97. What I do love is the traveling ... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera ... It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.

Crystal Lowe

#98. I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

Susannah McCorkle

#99. Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

Sean Price

#100. I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

Marcus Mumford