Alan Parsons Quotes

I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

Alan Parsons

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guitar
  • Now
  • Beatles

• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Album
  • Gap

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Power
  • Never
  • Album

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

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Mind
  • Album
  • Broadway

• The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Great
  • Small
  • Beatles

• Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Books
  • Quite

• I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Period
  • Recording
  • Disco

• I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Youth
  • Quite
  • Buoyant

• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Songs
  • Beatles

• A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Bad

• I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Theater

• I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Age
  • Reading

• I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Moments
  • Lose
  • Album

• When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Work
  • Album
  • Against

• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Album

• I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Door
  • Beatles

• Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • Interesting
  • Quite
  • Gentlemen

• I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Experience
  • First
  • Page

• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  

  Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Album
  • Recording
  • Beatles