Albums Quotes
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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!
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I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.
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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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Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.
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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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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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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
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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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Over all Avenged Sevenfold the album is 10 times better than the others.
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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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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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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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To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
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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.
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The original is more musical than the club mix. I always enjoy using melodies and find it crucial for albums to have variety in styles.
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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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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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Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
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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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It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.
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The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.
