Top 100 Quotes About My Albums
#1. It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
Cat Stevens
#2. I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.
Toby Keith
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
Sheryl Crow
#8. I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
Luke Bryan
#9. When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.
Bobby Womack
#10. I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
Taylor Swift
#11. 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.
Alison Elliott
#12. I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
Mos Def
#13. On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
Marilyn Manson
#14. I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
Yoko Ono
#15. 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.
Randy Houser
#16. If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
Danny Aiello
#17. I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.
Sarah Brightman
#18. 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.
Kailash Kher
#19. I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.
David Sanborn
#20. Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.
Deana Carter
#21. The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!
Brooke Fraser
#22. I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Kate Bush
#23. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.
Frank Sinatra
#24. I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
Paula Cole
#25. I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
Henry Rollins
#26. I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
Kate Bush
#27. I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
Kara DioGuardi
#28. 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
Natalie MacMaster
#29. All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince
#30. I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
Fiona Apple
#31. I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
Les Baxter
#32. I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.
Kelly Clarkson
#33. I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
George Strait
#34. On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#35. I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.
Toni Braxton
#36. If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
Flo Rida
#37. When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
Donny Osmond
#38. Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
Erykah Badu
#39. I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
David Guetta
#40. I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.
Christina Aguilera
#41. I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.
Robin Trower
#42. 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.
Prince Royce
#43. I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them.
DMX
#44. I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.
Kate Bush
#45. I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
Elvis Costello
#46. Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
Yelawolf
#47. What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.
John Frusciante
#48. I could never really tell you what direction. It's just however God just makes it; that's how all of my albums are. I don't really aim for a direction, but I just pick the best beats I can pick and that's it.
Ghostface Killah
#49. I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.
Billy Currington
#50. I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.
John Waters
#51. I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Nancy Sinatra
#52. If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
Don McLean
#53. My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.
Miranda Lambert
#54. Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
Al Yankovic
#55. If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Yoko Ono
#56. People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.
Sharon Jones
#57. My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
Helen Reddy
#58. There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums ... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
Toby Keith
#59. I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
Bill Callahan
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.
Lee Ann Womack
#63. When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it
Brooke Valentine
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
Miroslav Vitous
#67. My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.
Prince Royce
#68. I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
Kevin Bacon
#70. I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.
Dolly Parton
#71. My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell the truth so you had to make up a story about whatever you were looking at. He really taught us how to lie.
Sara Quin
#72. To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.
Ella Henderson
#73. My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!
Kelis
#74. I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
Lucinda Williams
#75. Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Kaskade
#76. I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.
Donnie Fritts
#77. I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
La India
#78. Buy my album because ... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.
Darren Criss
#79. I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it,
Kenny Chesney
#80. All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
Gerard Way
#81. I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.
Enrique Iglesias
#83. My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite.
Dara O Briain
#84. I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.
Alison Moyet
#85. Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
Daniel Breaker
#86. The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
Buzz Osborne
#87. When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
Dave Grohl
#88. The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.
Richard Hilfiger
#89. If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!
Adam Lambert
#90. 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.
Lou Adler
#91. I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.
Claudia Christian
#92. I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.
Jessie Usher
#93. One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
Al Yankovic
#94. I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.
Young Thug
#95. As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.
Shamir
#96. The L. A. Times is reporting that Britney Spears' album Blackout will be number one on the Billboard charts. Not to toot my horn, but I predicted this on my show a week ago. No one wanted to believe me - even I didn't want to believe me, but now I know how Nostradamus feels.
Chelsea Handler
#97. I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
Akon
#98. I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
David Friedman
#99. I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
Lou Reed
#100. I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.
Max Tundra
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