Album Quotes
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Most bands release a live album when they become old and fat. We wanted to be different.
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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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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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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 suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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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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One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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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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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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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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If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?
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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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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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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
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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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I just try and get better and better at me with every album.
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I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.
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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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Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
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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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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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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'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.
