Albums Quotes - Page 17

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

It feels great to have a #1 album.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.