Early Quote by Flying Lotus

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my…

— Flying Lotus

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

— Tyrese Gibson

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't…

— Charlie Watts

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

— Kelela

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like…

— Steve Winwood

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

— Future

The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.

— Nancy Wilson

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

— Chuck Eddy

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

— Mel Torme

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having…

— Robby Krieger

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's…

— Jon Brion