Albums Quotes
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I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.
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A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.
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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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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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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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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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It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
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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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Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
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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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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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To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
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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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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 problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.
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Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
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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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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 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.
