Famous Quotes & Sayings

Travis Barker

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

Trent Reznor

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

Trent Reznor

The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn't have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.

Thalia

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

Tyler Hilton

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No one really dug it. It was very Americana and had a lot of folk elements in it.

Vince Staples

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

Tim Curry

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Bob Newhart

I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.

Scott Weiland

When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

Vanessa Carlton

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

John Sykes

Phil left such an incredible legacy of music, there's hours of great stuff. We're gonna play all the hits and some classic album tracks. We got together to play, and it didn't sound too bad. In fact it sounded great and it was a lot of fun.

Perception is everything. Mariah was totally seen as the underdog (because) those albums were considered failures.

Vanilla Ice

Nobody knew the direction of the album until the very end. It was really amazing because we had no idea what we were going to come up with.

Chris Squire

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Ben Jorgensen

On the one hand it's a concept album about this guy who's trapped between life and death, but on the other hand we didn't want everyone to take it so seriously. My favorite movies, books and art have a certain duality - art that you can look at in one way and take out different meanings.

One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.

Glen Campbell

I was standing in the old Western Studio 3 in Los Angeles looking at record albums. I saw a Johnny Rivers album with a song whose title intrigued me. I didn't know if 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was about the town or about the mythological bird coming out of the ashes.

I was really trying to anchor down the band. We should explore this new song, but we've got to have a certain element that will have our old fans listening and enjoying it while gaining a whole bunch of new fans. I was definitely worried. But first and foremost we wanted to write songs that did inspire us. That was the most important part because we didn't want to write an album that we just hated before it even came out.

Obviously, we weren't happy that the album wasn't coming out, ... But we said, 'If it's going to be delayed, then let's take the time to go in and find some better songs.'

Felix Rodriguez

On first album, we were more inspired by 80's bands. We were kids. We were like 18 years old, pretty naive. I think that album was a lot about going out, partying - the new album is more about what we've been through.

Scott Weiland

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.

Kyle MacLachlan

My first album was The Doobie Brothers... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!

John Legend

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.

Dick Dale

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

Janet Jackson

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

Hilary Duff

But it was cool to actually feel like you're making music, and then to have the album be #1 for two weeks in a row (see

Les Baxter

But Gene Norman has an album out of me.

Ryan Ross

Because we had two songs online (before the album was out), people were already making assumptions about what kind of band we were and what our album was going to sound like. And that's what a lot of the album is about. It's directed at all those kids that talk on message boards.

Pete Murray

I'm a huge fan of Neil Young, and those great albums of his sound so alive. Many CDs today sound perfect, quite boring. I wanted to have that life in the songs. To me Feeler was quite a safe-sounding album. I was quite angry about that for a long time because I let it happen. Of course I judge it more harshly than anyone else; it's not a bad record. But I learnt I have to give more direction on what I want.

My album that was released in the US in the middle of last year has become a hit and topping sales in many retail stores with the American people buying my CD in large numbers.

Gregg Allman

My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.

Mystikal

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

Fiona Apple

Now that my album is finally finished, I am very, very excited to have people hear what we did. I am so proud of it, and all of us who worked on it.