Albums Quotes · Page 22

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

— Riff Raff

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

— Mary J. Blige

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

— Classified

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

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

— George Duke

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

— Les Baxter

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

— Moby

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

— Tony Levin

My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.

— Paul Wardingham

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

— Trisha Yearwood

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and…

— Rokia Traore

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing…

— Prince

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights…

— Geoff Downes

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

— Kid Rock

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob…

— Billy Crystal

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just…

— Sarah Brightman

I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to…

— Tom Bailey

I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of 'Narrow Stairs,' but that's not really a place I'm ready…

— Ben Gibbard

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a…

— Hank Azaria

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I…

— David Bowie

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and…

— Big Boi

I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different…

— Mark Hoppus

If you dont tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business -…

— Kerry King

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

— Yoko Ono

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

— Ian Brown

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

— Girl Talk

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

— Solange Knowles

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

— Peter Tosh

We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

— Winston Marshall

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

— Melissa Joan Hart

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Taylor Swift

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

— Lars Ulrich

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

— David Guetta

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

— Shelley Berman

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

— Debbie Harry