Albums Quotes

• When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Done
  • Listen
  • Albums

• 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.

  

  Caleb Joshua Shomo Attack Attack!
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• Some people do think the albums are like concept albums when they are not. That’s usually because of the artwork and the strong imagery that we use. What with the booklets and graphics and everything else and stuff like that. People get that impression. I say it with every album it’s the way it is, it’s a pretty simple approach and we try and get together the best collection of songs as best we can at any given time .... and you go with that. I mean you might look at it a year later and go back and think ‘Oh we could have done this or we could have done that’. You may think we could have second guessed this or that and we could have written a better song than that one. However at the time you’re enthusiastic about your stuff and you think that’s the best that you can come out with ..... at that time ...... you just HAVE to go with it. I don’t think you should look back over your shoulder at all, that’s always been our attitude. So that’s something that’s never changed in that respect. I mean that goes for with whatever the line up is, that’s always been the attitude. I hope that clears it up. We write the best collection of songs we can at the time and everything else fits around them .... not the other way around.

  

  Steve Harris Iron Maiden
  • People
  • Think
  • Albums

• Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Real
  • Luck
  • Gauges

• When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Business
  • Roots
  • Performing

• I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Stories
  • Regret
  • Albums

• The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Singing
  • Sound
  • Solo

• 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.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Trying
  • Firsts
  • Littles

• At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Albums
  • Expecting

• I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

  

  Akon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Giving

• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  

  Jack Jones
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Control
  • Wanted
  • Albums

• The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Firsts
  • Rotten
  • Hairdresser

• What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Albums

• 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.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Fun
  • Past
  • Made

• All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Amount
  • Favourite
  • Glue

• We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Songs
  • Albums
  • Recorded

• I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • She
  • Talent
  • Lady Gaga

• We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • America
  • Positive
  • Impact

• Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mean

• I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Kids

• I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

  

  Serena Williams
  • People
  • Selling
  • Singers

• I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.

  

  Jo Dee Messina
  • House
  • Baby
  • Company

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

...

10

previous

next