Albums Quotes · Page 13

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

— Peter Tosh

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

— Solange Knowles

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

— Girl Talk

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

— Shelley Berman

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

— David Guetta

Oh the new album? You can just download it off Napster or Limewire.. I don't mind.

— Lars Ulrich

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

— Taylor Swift

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

— Terry Pratchett

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop…

— Barry Manilow

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and…

— Eddie Van Halen

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are…

— Jonathan Davis

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual…

— Peter Hammill

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was…

— Kieran Hebden

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went…

— Cy Coleman

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album…

— Bo Bice

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff…

— Danger Mouse

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we…

— Chris Frantz

When we came out, the kind of music that was popular was Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, all that stuff. That…

— John Petrucci

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess…

— Anonymous

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about…

— John Darnielle

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come…

— River Phoenix

Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that…

— Chuck Ragan

I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that…

— Theresa Wayman

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the…

— Angel Olsen

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

— Susan Sontag

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

— Melissa Joan Hart

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

— Neil Young

It's easier to make a living doing shows then it is to sell albums.

— Classified

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

— Mary J. Blige

You can't make somebody buy an album. I buy people's albums though.

— Riff Raff

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

— Damian Marley

I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

— Daron Malakian

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

— Jason Mraz

I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses.

— Ian Brown

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

— Yoko Ono

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

— Tony Levin

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

— Moby

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

— Les Baxter

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

— George Duke

I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.

— Scott Hutchison