Albums Quotes · Page 71

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

— Patrick Carney

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that…

— Rob Sheffield

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all…

— Todd Boyd

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

— Jay-Z

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

— Bradford Cox

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication…

— Kevin Systrom

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And…

— Lenny Kravitz

We're not going to get into how many deals I've had. I don't think there is a label that I was signed…

— Tony Sunshine

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

— Drew Carey

Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your…

— Bat for Lashes

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

— Ricky Skaggs

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before…

— Mary J. Blige

We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together:…

— Jennifer Lopez

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad…

— Kylie Minogue

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to…

— Gold Panda

I'm just going to keep going. For me, the most important thing is that I have fun. I've reached nearly everything already…

— Udo Dirkschneider

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is…

— Chelsea Handler

I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring…

— Don Aslett

I've always got about four albums in my head.

— Dan Fogelberg

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't…

— Paul Banks

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what…

— Van Morrison

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing.…

— George Thorogood

I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that…

— Mike Stud

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I…

— David Bowie

I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I…

— Dion DiMucci