Band Quote by Chad Kroeger

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

— Daniel Johns

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

— Martina McBride

I feel like fans really want to spread the word about the band. I guess when you've done three records, you feel that you…

— Yukimi Nagano

I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing…

— Clay Aiken

A lot of the time bands make a record, tour a little bit then kinda fall back satisfied: oh well do a new record…

— Gym Class Heroes

After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in…

— Ryan Ross

As long as we were making music that we felt was of the same quality, there was no reason to stop making records, but…

— John Dolmayan

You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for…

— Craig Finn

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

— Anonymous

You always have those artists where they release one great record and then they're gone. But we achieved this overwhelmingly positive and massive acceptance…

— Richard Carpenter

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best…

— Brendon Urie