Album Quotes
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The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.
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'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
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I did an album and they allowed me to sell it at the show. I also did a Disney cruise line gig. I always wanted to make an album and it was an idea that came to me when we first started working on Aladdin.
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If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!
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If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?
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Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is the LP artwork. When we worked on the 'Electric Trim' artwork, we spent weeks and weeks making the LP artwork great, and then the CD artwork came together in a day or two. The LP is what's important to me.
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To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.
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I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.
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You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.
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The hardest part was knowing that I would have to talk about the album when I released it. I think the hardest part was waiting to see how long it would take for me to be able to get through the questions people would ask me.
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Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
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I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
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You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.
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We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.
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Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.
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I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.
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There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
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One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.
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I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
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My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.
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For me the songs on this album come from a really poetic and abstract vein. The record has a strong focus on the rhythmic and melodic parts, so in that moment I felt like the lyrics needed to be more like a poem, abstract images creating sensations beyond the “storytelling”.
