Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

I kind of doubt 14-year-old girls are downloading or buying Barry Manilow. But a 45-year-old woman who may not have been aware that this album existed is running out any buying it.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Neil Diamond

I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference between this album and my first or second album is I think the lyrics now go to places I could never go to then.

Andy Milonakis

I'm actually gonna do an album soon, yeah, ... It's gonna be comedy, the lyrics are all gonna be really wacky and comedic, but we're gonna get real hip-hop producers and try to make it sound like a real hip-hop CD.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm a big collector of vinyl-I have a record room in my house-and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

Tori Kelly

I'm a '90s kid, so I went into the entire album process wanting to incorporate little touches of that sound from hip-hop and R&B. Just enough to where you hear it subtly and then go, 'This kind of reminds me of that time.'

Trey Anastasio

I love the way this album came out, ... It was great to (work) with Brendan, who, nine songs into the record, looked at me and said, 'We're not putting this out until all 12 songs are great. You're not done.'

Trey Anastasio

I love the way this album came out,

Mick Taylor

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

That'll be three albums in three years, so that's pretty good.

Thomas Dolby

That record actually got a lot of recognition in Europe, but it was lost in the shuffle in the States. I keep running into people, most recently the president of a major record company, who say it's one of their favorite albums of all time.

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

Deana Carter

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

Paul Wall

I've been working in the studio with T Farris, who A&Red my first album and also Mike Jones' album. We're pumping out a lot of hits with Houston producers.

George Benson

I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.

Nick Rhodes

Oh, I love bios! I wouldn't say traditionally it was a "concept album." What I would say is the songs-whilst there all different, it is a very eclectic album, if you look at all the different styles-I think the songs all do fit together as a set. It's probably the most complete album we've made for many years.

Rick Springfield

They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a little bit more on the moody side.

Rick Rubin

They're both grown-ups, and there aren't many great albums by grown-ups. There's no reason why great artists shouldn't make their best records when they're 50, 60, 70. In other disciplines, it would be expected.

There's a song on the album called, 'Pride is a Lonely Blanket,' and that is the cornerstone of the album. Pride is what pushes you forward and pushes you backward at the same time.

Charlie Daniels

I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Skyline album was a real fun album to do. He was in a great mood. He was glad to be in Nashville, where the musicians were very laid back and very creative. We had a lot of fun doing that album.

J. Taylor

I often go out on the road without an album, ... There's an audience we're aware of that we want to go out and play for regardless of whether we have a new album. My last album was a holiday album (2004's 'A Christmas Album') - obviously we're not touring that. Albums come along when they're ready. I'm not on any particular schedule.

Lykke Li

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

George Strait

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

Neal Doughty

In '81, we both had albums vying for No. 1 - one week they'd have it, and one week we'd have it.

Richard Marx

I had been working on this album for quite some time and I actually signed with EMI/Manhattan prior to the Grammy win.

Jordan Rudess

I had done two albums with the Liquid Tension Experiment, and both were interesting compared to Dream Theater, because with those we didn't have the window or the parameters of what Dream Theater is,

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Hank Snow

Ive had about 140 albums released, and Ive done everything I wanted to do.

Jay-Z

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

Moby

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

Klaus Schulze

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

Klaus Schulze

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.

Greg Lake

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.