Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Paisley

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

Bono

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

Bono

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.

Bill Callahan

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Benny Green

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

Benny Blanco

Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'

Ben Gibbard

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

We've never had a top ten song. We've been close. I guess you could call us an album band.

Ace Frehley

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.

Anthony Jeselnik

Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.

Theophilus London

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

John Deacon

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

Noel Gallagher

You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.

Nadine Velazquez

I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!

Kailash Kher

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

Mike Love

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

Nas

'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

Lou Adler

I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Christy Romano

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

Frank Ocean

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Chris Squire

'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.

Nuno Bettencourt

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

Diana Krall

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Duncan Sheik

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

Damian Kulash

To me this album seems more energetic and raw, with more space unlike the first one, which was about stacking up 50 guitars and 80 backing vocals on each track,

I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet.

Allison Williams

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

Bruce Dickinson

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.