Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Collins

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

Justin Timberlake

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

Karlie Kloss

My friend Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989.

Kailash Kher

Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

Mary J. Blige

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Niall Horan

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Natasha Hamilton

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

Margo Timmins

I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.

Psy

I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was all.

Marc Almond

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

Kenny G

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

Paloma Faith

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

Caitlin Rose

'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

Hunter Hayes

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Lisa Gerrard

About half the set is new stuff. We save the older pieces for the encores, if we get them. We haven't written together in a while, but we've both brought in things we've written on our own. We don't know if there will be a new album yet; we'll have to wait and see how Brendan is feeling at the end of all this.

Richie Sambora

About two weeks before I left (to promote the new album), God just hit the creative gas pedal on me and I wrote like 14 new songs, ... So I have an album sitting in my pocket.

Michael Azerrad

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

Raekwon

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

Michael Moore

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

Noel Gallagher

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

Nas

I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.

Miranda Lambert

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

Paula Cole

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

Chris Squire

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

Wyclef Jean

I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey.

Chris Squire

'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.

Chris Squire

'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.

Billy Joel

I'm kind of in a dark place. And I know some people are actually excited about that, because they think I'll write an album about being sad. But that's not what my music is about. There have been times when I've done that, but I'm not going to do it again.

Ricky Martin

I met with great producers and composers, young people that wanted to give it all in their art, ... We were risking, we were daring to go places that we never went in music and because of it, I think there's a lot of spontaneity. We weren't doing music following any rules. I wanted to start from zero, as if it were the first album that I was recording, so I could present a new sound.

Billy Corgan

I met with a lot of resistance when I wanted our newest album to be a double CD. Many people thought I was going to ruin the band by doing it.

Neil Young

I had a playback party for Homegrown for me and about 10 friends. We were out of our minds. We all listened to the album and Tonight's the Night happened to be on the same reel. So we listened to that too, just for laughs. No comparison.

George Thorogood

I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to do two studio albums, a live album and an all-acoustic album, a solo album, which I have yet to do. And then I was just going to take whatever notoriety I had and I was going to come to like California and try to get small bit parts in movies or something. Small parts, not leading parts, not like Elvis Presley did. I'm talking about just small parts and then maybe just play music on the side. It just didn't work out that way.

Warren Zevon

The first few albums I bought, I guess around high school age, I had a John Lee Hooker album and a Bo Diddley album, and then some singles.