Albums Quotes

• 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
  • Up
  • Knows
  • Wanted

• I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Wanted
  • Rooms
  • Bedroom

• In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Years
  • Ready
  • Albums

• I still get people coming up with Firm albums saying, “It’s my favorite band ever.” That is genuine. When I’m on the road, it’ll happen twice a night. After all that time, we must have done something right.

  

  Chris Slade
  • People
  • Right
  • Albums

• 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
  • Challenges
  • Stills
  • Core

• 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
  • Different
  • Art
  • Concentrate

• 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
  • Song
  • Lost
  • Joy

• When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Direct

• There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

  

  Stéphane Paut
  • Band
  • Albums
  • New Things

• My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Beautiful
  • Funeral
  • Buried

• One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Albums
  • Hated
  • CDs

• 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
  • Life
  • Albums
  • Hole

• The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

  

  David Bowie
  • Albums
  • Adopted
  • Brian

• I've gotten to meet Sara Bareilles a couple of times. I'm just a such a massive fan of hers, from her albums to 'Waitress' to everything that she does. To be a fan of somebody and then find out that they have a good heart and are kind is really heartwarming.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Fans
  • Waitress
  • Heartwarming

• Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, Who is this guy? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Guy
  • Successful
  • Heard

• The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Focus
  • Certain
  • Albums

• As a rapper, I was heavily influenced by American rap albums. But for songs that are more melody-driven, I get my inspiration from Korean albums.

  

  G-Dragon
  • American
  • Inspiration
  • Rap

• You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Wise
  • Albums

• Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.

  

  Classified
  • Song
  • Albums

• I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Reason
  • Company
  • Differences

• 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
  • Years
  • Next
  • Albums

• I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

  

  Prince
  • Market
  • Albums
  • Singles

• I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Great
  • Think
  • Right

• It's easier to make a living doing shows then it is to sell albums.

  

  Classified
  • Shows
  • Easier
  • Sells

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