Albums Quotes - Page 22

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

My first album came out in 1979.

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

To all the boys who inspired this album: You should've known. ;)

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

I think you have to drop an album to truly see the effects of your following.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I'm still exploring. As I look back, Nénette Et Boni had a massive effect on the album we made after it, Curtains. I think it's been like that all the way through. Trouble Every Day had a massive effect on Can Our Love... I think it's allowed us to raise our heads, take a bit of a left turn, explore different avenues, and then come back to our own thing and see it in a different way.

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.