Joe Elliott Quotes
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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.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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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.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.
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I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.
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I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
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To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.
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To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
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I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
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I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
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I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
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Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.
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Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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Some of the demos we do are better than a lot of people's albums.
