Albums Quotes
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I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.
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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.
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Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.
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A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.
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Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
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I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.
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Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
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I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."
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Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.
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It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
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Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
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U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.
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Over all Avenged Sevenfold the album is 10 times better than the others.
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Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
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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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To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
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Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.
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I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.
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My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.
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I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.
