Albums Quotes - Page 16

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.