Album Quotes
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When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.
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For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
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I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
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We wanted to once again top our selves in every scale of music and now that we hear the final version of the whole album, everyone -for the first time in the band’s history, I guess- is 100% satisfied with the result and I think we came up with some very nice and fresh ideas and very nice elements in our music.
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I just really stop taking it personal and just look at it like it's not my album and it's some other dude's album. I try to trick my brain. It's easier said than done though, for sure.
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I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.
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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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I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.
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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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We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album Music From the Edge of Heaven because it wasn't an album.
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I never felt the need to actually change from being a Moody Blue and doing any solo recording. It is only because The Moody Blues haven’t recorded for over ten years now that I suppose the frustration set in and I really would have liked to have made a new album, and I suddenly realised that in the natural order of things, the album was going to be my own album.
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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”.
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Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.
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The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
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A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
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I just try and get better and better at me with every 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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We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.
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Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.
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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
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We were nominated for Grammy once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.
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My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
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You're only as good as your latest album. You just have to try really hard.
