Albums Quote by Russell Mael Download Open image “Bands can get lazy after 20 albums. But that's not us.” — Russell Mael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Albums Bands Get Lazy Music making Us
Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we… — No I.D Copy Share Image
I'm sad for younger bands that don't have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
It was just another way for us to put out more material in a shorter amount of time. We don't want to play the… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day. — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an album, tour… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that. — Kings Of Leon Copy Share Image
Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The unfortunate thing with COVID is that Ron's been working separately from me, but it hasn't stopped the flow of things. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I sing and Ron doesn't want to be the singer of the band, he's the keyboard player and predominant writer of the band. There's… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
A lot of people build up a backlog of songs and you can kind of go, 'Let's explore that song we did six years… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There are still some people - it's hard to believe - that aren't aware yet of Sparks. So we still kind of go at… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Having an image was really important to us and that was kind of contrary to the bands in L.A. that we had grown up… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
As long as it elicits some kind of thought on the listener's part, that's good. If no one's paying attention to the lyrics it's… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
We'd been approached various times during our career about a documentary, but we always hesitated to say yes, because what we do musically speaks… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing. — John Mayall Copy Share Image
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it.… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted. — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records,… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
I'll put out an album, and people review it, and some people love it, and some people tear it apart. By nature of the… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You… — Kanye West Copy Share Image