Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Lambert

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

Alison Krauss

Lonely Runs Both Ways. It's amazing to win for (Country) Album of the Year because we kind of just make albums for ourselves.

Alice Cooper

Look at the bands from 1968 who are still around. What we have in common is a lot of hit records that still get played, and a different work ethic. You used to make an album, do a world tour, and then do it again. Sometimes you made two albums a year. To me, that still goes. I'm always thinking about the next album. That's old school, but that's me. That's show business.

I was hoping the album would do well. But the nomination gives it a little validation, I guess. I mean, for a first project, it really did well, and I was a little surprised.

Ed Kowalczyk

I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urgency and intensity of this album is like our first record. And the title started to mean that, yeah, we've been through a lot, and this album is coming out after we've been doing this for 10 years. It feels new and right and happy again.

Peter Steele

I think for the most part it really doesn't matter how good an album is; I think it really comes down to musical climate.

Britney Spears

I'm so happy that it's been up on the charts for so long, ... I mean, so many albums don't stay up there that I hope mine does, and it's great.

Angus Young

I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

Bruce Springsteen

Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds. They can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words.

Kelly Rowland

It has been a very personal album for me. It has been one of the best experiences of my life. It's a look into the past two years, going through different relationships, love and growing as a woman. It's a soul-searching record. It's really beautiful.

I think today record companies are looking for a single, rather than here's an album we made that tries to have some flow to it, tries to weave common threads and themes to it.

Rick Rubin

I think that American V may be my favorite of all of the albums in the American series. It's different from the others, it has a much different character. I think that this is as strong an album as Johnny ever made.

Diana Ross

I think the album really is about -- it's a reflection of where I am and (where) I've been for the last year or so in my life. I choose my songs that way because I become the lyric. I mean, I live the songs before I record them.

Shreya Ghoshal

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

Ronnie Montrose

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Joaquin Phoenix

I went out and bought every album I could, ... It was interesting to get his early music and hear how an artist develops. And I found the music was the gateway to Johnny. I found his speaking voice through his singing voice.

Bobby McFerrin

I want to write more albums. Right now, I release an album every two to three years, but I would like to release one every year.

Don Brewer

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Jimmy Page

We were in a constant state of musical growth. Each album reflected the general consciousness that we were at in that point in time.

Christine Lavin

You know, the original album title was going to be 'Bad Girl Trapped in a Good Girl Body,' ... But I was talked out of it.

Justin Timberlake

When I release my new album this year...Urge and I will be doing some new and creative things. Urge offers a new way for artists like myself to specifically reach music fans with a ton of options.

Roma Downey

You know, it's very deep in everyone's secret longings to be a recording star. I know I used to hold a hairbrush and lip-sync with songs on the radio. So making this album was great fun and allowed me the opportunity to work with a family friend.

We are not really worried if anything happens for us. We want to have an album out that we like and music that speaks to us.

Bruce Cockburn

We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohesive whole, ... Most of the time when we put on records it's because we want that mood whatever it is. So, if you have an album that is widely varied in mood it might get played less than one that fits somebody's particular mood... at least that's how my choices usually work.

Randy Houser

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

Sarah Silverman

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

Ringo Starr

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

Olivia Newton-John

I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

Mark Ronson

I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

Pritam Chakraborty

I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

Russell Peters

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore.

Rick Wakeman

I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it.