Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Frank Ocean

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

Alan Jackson

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Bruno Schulz

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

Dee Snider

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

Billy Joel

It feels great to have a #1 album.

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

Jonathan Cain

We're sort of superstitious now. The albums that had the beetle on it did better than the ones that didn't. It's with us. It's part of our allure.

Kevin Drew

When we handed this record in, it confused a lot of people, even within the band. That's what I love about it -- I just find it this big, beautiful mess. Sometimes, albums should be experiments, and people who truly understand us know that's all we were doing from the get-go.

Page Hamilton

Wharton was my only choice to co-produce this project with me. I want to get back to my roots with this release and what's really cool is that we are actually using the same tape machine that we recorded our first two albums with. The whole thing is also going to be done in all analog to give it that classic Helmet sound. We're very excited about it.

Robert Lamm

We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.

Jonathan Cain

We're honored to be performing with a band that received their Diamond Award (given for 10,000,000 albums sold) at the same ceremony when we received our Diamond Award. So it seems fitting that we go out together after all these years and celebrate a lot of good years of rock and roll.

Wayne Coyne

We're aware that we have to be marketable, because at the end of the day, it's about making money, ... So we try to make our albums a good blend of art and commercialism.

Les Baxter

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

Bobby Moynihan

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Kate Bush

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

Kate Bush

I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

Kate Bush

If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.

Al Yankovic

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Bruce Dickinson

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bonnie Tyler

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

Travie McCoy

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

Janet Jackson

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

Geoff Downes

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

Madison Smartt Bell

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Schoolboy Q

'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em. Like 'Setbacks,' I knew that was gone be the first one; I knew 'Habits & Contradictions.' I knew 'Oxymoron.' I got two more albums that I already have the title to it, and I know how I'ma play the theme off of it.

It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.

Taylor Hawkins

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?

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

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.