Browsing Topic Best Albums Quotes

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Michael Jackson’s album was only called Bad because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that’s how the album came out so dark.

I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I’m trying to get that finished.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I’d ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it’s so beautiful.

I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and I don’t think that I would have had the same album if I had just written it by myself.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don’t ask the names.

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

I’m a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It’s Cyndi Lauper, and it’s called Hat Full Of Stars. She’s so underrated.

I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

I don’t know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you’re better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

If you’re 20 years old, you’ve grown up without buying albums.

Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that’s only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place.

You can’t get the visual thing on the record as much as you’d like to. We produced this album, and we’d never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

I’ve been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I’ve been collecting their albums on CD — right now I really like ‘I Put a Spell on You.’ I don’t know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven’t looked in the liner notes, but it’s the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain?’ They’re my favorite American band of all time, totally.

I’m into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

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

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

The crowd response has always been great, we always have fun at the shows and we will definitely be back representing our album to give people entertainment with a stage show, most rap shows are boring.

For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

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.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

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