Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Miller

In this era it's harder for musicians to get together, ... Back in the '80s, we were all at the clubs, you ran into people all the time. Now, everybody's kind of in their own room with their computers. I use making an album as an opportunity to connect with musicians.

I haven't heard all of it, but what I have heard of Kim's album is good. Maybe because she knew what she was facing, she put her all into it. She was motivated. Struggles and controversy can make strong records.

Pete Townshend

I have said many times... that I am reticent about committing to a tour without a completed new Who album under my belt. As things stand I am still pushing to produce some more songs. So the announcement (of a 2006 tour) may seem premature. It is not.

I really like to give everyone a show. I must have 20 of his albums back home.

He's someone who will be in the Hall of Fame. And this gospel album is one for the ages, for the history books.

Alice Cooper

He started to, but we said we weren't happy with the feelings we got off the cut... the album now is more us than the other production that Frank did.

Dave Grohl

I don't really know how to explain it, ... I think that those are just the type of songs that I imagine standing onstage and singing for the rest of my life. Each one of them means a lot to me. It's important I have those songs on the set list because they keep me up onstage. I'm not much of a storyteller. I am, but I get tired of the same story after a few spins. I can't really imagine writing an album of urban folk tales.

I don't pretend to be any smarter than Average Joe. To be honest, I'm not even sure what I'm saying half the time. My vocabulary is not as big as my lyrics would suggest. That said, I've always had a passion for creative writing, language and wordplay. I think a singer has a dual opportunity to be artistic: I have my voice as my instrument, but I also have an entire language at my disposal. Why not explore the outer realms? I'd be doing this band an injustice if I did anything less. I wanted this album to be more poetic, with less ranting and raving, and I think I did that, but without sacrificing my intellect or personal philosophies.

Hannibal Buress

I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

Chris Stein

It's a continuation. It feels like we were in the studio for 16 years. It was bottled up and this album was an outpouring.

Jamie Cullum

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.

It's totally alien for us to be at something like the Mercury's. Wed have frittered the money away and given some to our producer. He made our album for love; it was never about anything else.

David Archuleta

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

Eric Clapton

I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,

Darren Hayes

I wanted to make an album that was painfully honest, like (Bruce) Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love,'

Ian Brown

I want it to take me around the world. So far, I have lots of festivals lined up, in England, Italy, Norway, other places. And I'll hopefully be back in the States in May or June. I already have five new songs for the next album and plan on releasing it the end of this year or early last year.

Tatyana Ali

It took me two weeks to decide to do the tour instead of going right back to school. An album is short-lived and college is four years.

Vanessa Williams

They can hear a lot of hits. They can hear a lot of my hits -- my current album is hits from the 70s, my favorite stuff. So they'll hear Chaka Kahn, the Ohio Players, and they'll also hear the ones they know and love,

Brad Paisley

It should feel a lot like my other albums that way, in that it's a progression and there are different themes and you go from one topic to another and it feels a little bit like a life journey, I think.

Mike Love

It's been about 25 years since I did a solo project. I've been working on the new album for the past two or three years. I've recorded 17 songs, probably 12 of which will make it onto the CD.

Lil' Kim

It's been nonstop since the day I found out, ... I knew when the verdict came down and then the sentencing, that I didn't have any time to play around. I had to get the album done, and all the other things in my life settled quickly. I'd never done an album so fast before, and in a way it was a good thing. The music just kind of rolled out.

Zac Hanson

It's the people who come out to the shows and the people who buy the albums who actually matter. Everyone else is actually icing on the cake.

Ethan Iverson

It made for such a powerful impression. Everybody was talking about how this Nirvana tune was on there. But the truth of that matter is that Herbie Hancock put out an album 10 years ago with Nirvana on it.

Jon Secada

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Paul Westerberg

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Prince

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

Jimmy Buffett

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Jimmy Iovine

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

Jimmy Page

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

Jimmy Page

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.

Jim Sturgess

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

Levon Helm

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Phil Collins

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.