Albums Quotes - Page 19

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

If I did meet somebody, I would only ever make room for someone that loved me how I deserved to be loved. Until then I've got my shoes, I've got my album, my dog.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!