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The mystical poetry of William Blake’s artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it’s just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness – that it’s ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.

I have really low self-esteem, and it’s not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I’ll buy whatever catches my attention.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I’ll buy whatever catches my attention.

We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I’m photographing are selling something, you know whether they’re on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they’re a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line… so I want to help them achieve that.

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they’re album covers. Sometimes they’re commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of – I don’t dictate it.

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ….. The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could’ve been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn’t fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn’t compute.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

I try to explain that to my kids – the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you – but my kids don’t want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

I’ve always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

I don’t do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don’t like or have no interest in.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you’d knew Michael, you would know he didn’t agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn’t agree to the point of definition with many things.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

I don’t have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.