Albums Quotes · Page 11

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

— Winston Marshall

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

— Solange Knowles

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

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

— Yoko Ono

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

— Jason Mraz

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first…

— Mel Torme

I think we filmed a lot of the recording and it would be nice to do something with it but you know,…

— Jess Margera

If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as…

— Park Bom

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums.…

— Stompin' Tom Connors

I had a little indie label called No Core and Dave Grohl's first band was called, Dain Bramage so I out an…

— Reed Mullin

I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically,…

— Chaz Bundick

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

— Neige

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

— Yannis Philippakis

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album.…

— John Astin

I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into…

— DJ Spooky

There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return…

— Jose James

Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there…

— Thomas Bangalter

Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we…

— B-Real

I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last…

— Nick Rhodes

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business…

— Don McLean

I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out. I wanted…

— DJ Quik

I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

— Daron Malakian

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

— Ian Brown

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

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

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

— Mary J. Blige

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

— Britta Phillips

If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!

— Thom Yorke

I got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.

— Sara Evans

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

— Neil Farber

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

— Carole King

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

— Lil Wayne

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

— Natasha Hamilton

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

— Barry Manilow

There was a time when using TV to sell albums was frowned upon.

— Anne Murray