Album Quote by Xzibit

Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I…

— Conor Oberst

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

— Ann Wilson

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations…

— Joni Mitchell

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural…

— DJ Spooky

There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said 'When I think of the group, I always think of power and…

— Jimmy Page

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of…

— Mark Hoppus

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like,…

— Robert Crumb

It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day…

— Craig Finn

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put…

— Busta Rhymes

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

— Erik Parker

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

— Heinrich Heine

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

— Jimmy Page