Album Quote by Bradford Cox

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

— Grace Potter

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a…

— Cass McCombs

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will…

— Paul McCartney

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

— Dick Dale

I always try to make my next song better than the last.

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous. I didn't stop writing after the first album came out and everything I wrote…

— Alicia Keys

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone…

— Carole King

I never start a song at the beginning; I always start in the middle, working with the original concept. That might be a loop…

— Goldie

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So…

— Erin McKeown

I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

— Dan Auerbach

For every album, I really try to make an album that you hopefully will listen to from the first track to the last track.…

— Trentemøller

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

— Jon Foreman