Advice Quote by Keith Whitley

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

— Cole Swindell

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but…

— Yael Naim

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

— Rebecca Ferguson

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 had basically been shelved by the record label for two years and I was writing songs every day. I made two albums that…

— Nina Nesbitt

I try to take my own advice in terms of the type of music I create for my fans - upliftment, positivity, love, having…

— Koffee

I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and…

— Shirley Manson

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

— Susannah McCorkle

Early on, I had to structure my ideas of success around things like, 'Can I go back and listen to the record months or…

— Jason Isbell

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

I wanted to make an album that I wanted to put on myself and could listen to again and again. In the past I've…

— Jamie Lidell

It's interesting, my first album was called 'You Signed Up For This.' It was a question; it was addressed to the audience. And as…

— Maisie Peters