Albums Quotes · Page 14

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

— Lou Reed

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

— Julian Casablancas

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

— Isaac Hanson

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

— Chuck Mangione

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

— Lauryn Hill

My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

— Liam Gallagher

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

— David Bowie

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

— Shooter Jennings

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in…

— Jens Lekman

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me…

— Kate Bush

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just…

— Colin Greenwood

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be…

— Rokia Traore

I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not…

— Brett Dennen

There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that…

— Toby Keith

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the…

— John Cho

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the…

— Lupe Fiasco

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that…

— Phil Collins

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what…

— Q-Tip

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written…

— Jason Mraz

As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is…

— Vanilla Ice

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do…

— Kate Bush

It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or…

— Butch Walker

Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.

— Donnis

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

— Jim Sturgess

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.

— Reba McEntire

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

— Ice T

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

— Pink

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

— Neige

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

— Randy Newman

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

— Bootsy Collins

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

— Alexandre Desplat

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

— Wanda Jackson

We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.

— Eyedea

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

— Caterina Murino

I have been told that my voice is very suited to oldies albums.

— Anne Murray

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

— Blake Shelton

All my albums are evolutions, one on top of the other.

— Lil Xan