Albums famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
-- Aaliyah -
I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
-- Aaliyah -
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
-- Ace Frehley -
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
-- Ace Frehley -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
-- Adam Ant -
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
-- Adam Ant -
The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.
-- Adam Lambert -
My first album was completed in three months.
-- Adam Lambert -
If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!
-- Adam Lambert -
I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
-- Adam Sandler -
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
-- Aimee Mann -
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
-- Akon -
I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
-- Al Yankovic -
I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
-- Al Yankovic -
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
-- Al Yankovic -
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
-- Al Yankovic -
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
-- Al Yankovic -
I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
-- Alan Jackson -
I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.
-- Alan Jackson -
My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
-- Alan Jackson -
I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
-- Alan Jackson -
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
-- Alan Parsons -
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
-- Alan Parsons -
I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.
-- Alex Borstein -
I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
-- Alice Cooper -
We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.
-- Alice Cooper -
A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
-- Alison Krauss -
Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!
-- Amy Schumer -
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
-- Andy Summers -
The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
-- Angie Martinez -
I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.
-- Angie Martinez -
That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
-- Angus Young -
Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.
-- Angus Young -
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
-- Anita Baker -
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
-- Anita Baker -
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
-- Anita Baker -
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
-- Annie Lennox -
Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
-- Ashley Benson -
Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.
-- Barry Gibb -
For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
-- Barry Manilow -
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
-- Barry Manilow -
I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
-- Beanie Sigel -
I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.
-- Bella Thorne -
I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
-- Ben Gibbard -
The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.
-- Bernie Taupin -
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
-- Bernie Worrell -
I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
-- Betty Who -
I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.
-- Big Jim Sullivan -
The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
-- Big Pun -
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
-- Bill Wyman -
I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
-- Bjork -
I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.
-- Blake Shelton -
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
-- Bo Bice -
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
-- Bob Brookmeyer -
I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.
-- Bobby Moynihan -
When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.
-- Bobby Womack -
I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
-- Bonnie Tyler -
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
-- Bonnie Tyler -
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
-- Bootsy Collins -
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
-- Bootsy Collins -
I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
-- Brandy Norwood -
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
-- Branford Marsalis -
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
-- Brett Eldredge -
Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.
-- Brett Eldredge -
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
-- Brian Austin Green -
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
-- Brian Eno -
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
-- Brian May -
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
-- Brian May -
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in
-- Brian May -
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
-- Brian May -
Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music
-- Brian Setzer -
I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.
-- Britney Spears -
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
-- Bruno Mars -
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
-- Bruno Schulz -
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
-- Burton Cummings -
I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.
-- Busta Rhymes -
I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.
-- Busta Rhymes -
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
-- Carly Simon -
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
-- Carole King -
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
-- Carole King -
I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.
-- Catie Curtis -
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out
-- Chaka Khan -
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
-- Charles Kelley -
An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
-- Charles Lamb -
My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
-- Charlie Daniels -
If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.
-- Chely Wright -
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
-- Chris Brown -
I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!
-- Chris Colfer -
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
-- Chris Martin -
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
-- Chris Martin -
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
-- Chris Martin