Art Quote by Ricky Martin

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

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

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing…

— Floor Jansen

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

— Ry Cooder

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up…

— Fiona Apple

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other…

— Danny Aiello

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

— DJ Shadow

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new…

— Kieran Hebden

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted…

— Jens Lekman

I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a…

— Morten Harket