Quotes About Albums

#1. 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

#2. More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Andy Summers

#3. 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

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

Daron Malakian

#5. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

#6. 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

#7. 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.

Don McLean

#8. 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

#9. I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Debbie Harry

#10. To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Josh Silver

#11. 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

#12. If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

Henry Rollins

#13. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.

Richard Lewis

#14. 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

#15. A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

Joe Perry

#16. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

#17. 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

#18. I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.

Jessica De Gouw

#19. Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

Ari Up

#20. 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

#21. In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Chuck Mangione

#22. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Frank Ocean

#23. 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

#24. It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Cat Stevens

#25. 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.

Kelly Jones

#26. When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

Nancy O'Dell

#27. 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

#28. I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.

Olly Murs

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

DJ Shadow

#30. I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music. I'm not looking at the calendar.

One Be Lo

#31. Listening to albums and records is not the best way to percept Verka Serduchka. Live shows are the place where you can feel that specific atmosphere, that is not going to be the same ever.

Verka Serduchka

#32. One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to

Gillian Flynn

#33. 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

#34. I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

Toby Keith

#35. The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Brian May

#36. Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Chris Martin

#37. Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

Jesse Jackson

#38. When I embraced the rock hat, when I put it on two or three years ago, when I realized I'm gonna go and make really focused rock albums, it felt like wearing an old shoe. It was a perfect fit.

Glenn Hughes

#39. I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

Ron Pope

#40. Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

Jason Newsted

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

Rufus Wainwright

#44. I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

Rita Rudner

#45. Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally.

Cheyenne Jackson

#46. For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

Stephen Sondheim

#47. Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

Tony Visconti

#48. Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.

Rickey Henderson

#49. When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

Bradford Cox

#50. I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].

Paul Oakenfold

#51. I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

Kanye West

#52. Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

Classified

#53. Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

Anita Baker

#54. Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Bill Bryson

#55. In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.

Lee Ann Womack

#56. I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.

Yukimi Nagano

#57. It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.

Todd Barry

#58. Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

#59. The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

Bernie Taupin

#60. All my money comes from show money. You might get your deals, your advancements to do your album, but it wasn't in great abundance. Everybody's money in the '90s came from doing shows. That's a whole lot of show money, and that's it.

Redman

#61. There is a conception about me that I am a playback singer and I sing for albums or for films only, but my roots are in bhajans. Even when I was in school, I used to win competitions for ghazals and bhajans.

Sonu Nigam

#62. If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

Steven Tyler

#63. I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

Colin Stetson

#64. Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

George Carlin

#65. I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?

Taylor Hawkins

#66. I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me.

Tom Waits

#67. I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

Ricky Skaggs

#68. Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

Diego Boneta

#69. And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

Bruno Schulz

#70. 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

R. Kelly

#71. As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

Raekwon

#72. Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.

Angus Young

#73. I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

Emeli Sande

#74. I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

Kevin Drew

#75. Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

LL Cool J

#76. However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

David Bowie

#77. I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

Robert Plant

#78. I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?

Toni Braxton

#79. When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

Brooke Valentine

#80. All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Terry Pratchett

#81. 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

#82. I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

Hilary Duff

#83. England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

Justin Timberlake

#84. The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

Steve Earle

#85. Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

Fleur East

#86. Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Randy Bachman

#87. I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

Carlos Santana

#88. I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

Bryce Wilson

#89. I was writing before I met Rick and actually I created the band before Rick Finch. Basically, the first album, I wrote. Who's to say what would've happened? Rick was very talented too.

Harry Wayne Casey

#90. 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.

Rachel Boston

#91. To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

DJ Shadow

#92. It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

Sune Rose Wagner

#93. 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.

Angie Martinez

#94. A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

El-P

#95. I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

Bradford Cox

#96. On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

Brian May

#97. A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Hunter Hayes

#98. I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Dave Grohl

#99. 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.

Ned Beauman

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

Ed Sheeran