Albums Quotes · Page 13

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

— Solange Knowles

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

— Winston Marshall

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

— Peter Tosh

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

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

— Taylor Swift

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Lars Ulrich

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop…

— Barry Manilow

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They…

— Brian May

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if…

— Ed Droste

Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I…

— Enrique Iglesias

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the…

— Kerry King

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade…

— George Jones

A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums…

— No I.D

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get…

— Akon

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like…

— LL Cool J

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some…

— Dave Grohl

Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that…

— Richard Lloyd

Every year, we couldn't believe it, and even when I look back on it now, to sell 14 million singles, 50 million…

— Shane Filan

When I'm going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back…

— Mary J. Blige

The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert…

— Solange Knowles

I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three…

— Richard Pinhas

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

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

— Damian Marley

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 a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

— Neil Young

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

— Classified

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

— Tony Levin

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

— Moby

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

— Yoko Ono

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

— Les Baxter

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

— George Duke

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

The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'

— J. J. Cale