Albums Quotes · Page 5

My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.

— Curt Smith

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

— The Edge

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

— Isaac Hanson

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

— Aaliyah

We sold millions of albums.

— Richard Carpenter

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

— John Rzeznik

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

— DJ Shadow

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

— Alan Jackson

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

— Dexter Holland

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

— Anonymous

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

— Stephen Malkmus

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

— Beth Ditto

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

— Bradford Cox

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

— Big K.R.I.T

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

— John Deacon

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

— Carole King

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and…

— Jeff Lynne

My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife…

— Dara O Briain

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't…

— Carrie Underwood

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

— Prince

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling…

— Phil Anselmo

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through…

— David Bowie

So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to…

— Corbin Bleu

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to…

— Kanye West

I got to a happier point and then started making a record [Wild Things]. I don't mind at all that it sounds…

— Ladyhawke

So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still…

— Billy Joel

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist.…

— Marc Almond

The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We've been friends…

— Baron Vaughn

I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my…

— Donnie Fritts

I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or…

— Christopher Bollen

Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And…

— Joan Baez

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about…

— Jon Landau

What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song…

— Jeffrey Lewis

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has…

— Skylar Grey

Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it…

— Chuck D

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a…

— Richie Havens

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm…

— Gene Simmons

When I was producing the first solo album, i just wanted to convey some messages through it. The message was 'no blood…

— G-Dragon