Albums Quotes · Page 11

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

— Cyndi Lauper

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

— Noel Gallagher

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

— Brooke Valentine

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

— Tyrese Gibson

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

— Jason Alexander

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

— Theophilus London

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

— Lupe Fiasco

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the…

— Christian Burns

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

— Dave Grohl

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar…

— Daniel Breaker

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which…

— Roberta Flack

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere…

— Randy Bachman

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a…

— Kim Deal

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case,…

— Audie Cornish

I think the I Am album allowed me to show fans that I'm more than just a mixtape artist, who can make…

— Yo Gotti

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was…

— Van Morrison

I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2'…

— Raekwon

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet,…

— Alan Palomo

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful.…

— Joe Budden

I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours…

— Donna Air

I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each…

— Herbie Hancock

I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album…

— John Legend

I'm the only one that put out 200 songs, and [fans] listen to all of 'em. I don't care who you talk…

— Lil Boosie

I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which…

— Bone Crusher

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

— Selena Gomez

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

— John Carter Cash

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

— Paris Hilton

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

— Sage Francis

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.

— Tarja Turunen

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

— PSY

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

— Curt Smith

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

— Eminem

With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.

— Yo Gotti

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

— Angus Young

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

— Raekwon

Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.

— Maggie Rogers

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

— Brian May

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

— T-Pain

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

— Sho Baraka