Albums Quotes
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
Brian May Queen -
What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.
Ty Segall
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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.
Van Morrison -
Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
Tad Williams -
The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.
Ty Segall -
I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .
Mac DeMarco -
Everyone gets that second album syndrome.
Niall Horan One Direction
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I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
Sivamani -
I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
Erykah Badu -
Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.
Michael Azerrad -
It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.
Stéphane Paut -
There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.
Robbie Williams Take That -
It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.
Stéphane Paut
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If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
Mickey Gilley -
I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.
Zach Condon -
The guy we want to get is the guy who did the Aerosmith album which is coming out in two days, and a Chili Peppers album, and a couple of Pearl Jam albums. We want to get someone that will sort of bring out the high energy aspect more than the dreaminess that was on the last album.
Mike Gordon -
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth