Album Quotes
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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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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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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'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 suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
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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 miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
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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 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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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”.
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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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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?
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I just try and get better and better at me with every album.
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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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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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My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
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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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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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We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.
