Albums Quote by Natalie Merchant

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

— Dr. Dre

When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you…

— Dave Grohl

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that…

— Geoff Downes

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

— Curt Smith

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one…

— Ed O'Brien

Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album…

— Gerry Beckley

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

— Steven Wright

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we…

— Thom Yorke

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

— Chuck Comeau

I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album…

— Lenny Kravitz

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

I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each…

— Jon Hopkins