Albums Quote by Ken Hensley

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and…

— Bjork

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on…

— Kate Bush

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an…

— Lee Ranaldo

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

— Curt Smith

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made…

— Pete Townshend

I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an…

— John Vanderslice

You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to the format.…

— Tim Hecker

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number…

— Ken Hensley

One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.

— Lee Ranaldo

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

— Girl Talk

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

— Tim Hecker