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 never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I’ve been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, River Of Dreams in ’93.

I’ve expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.

For every album, I really try to make an album that you hopefully will listen to from the first track to the last track. I personally really like if there’s a – maybe not a story, but there’s a natural flow.

It’s nice if you’re making a regular pop or rock album and you get ten little songs. But I really try to make the album with one big story instead of ten small stories.

But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of ‘Glee,’ like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that’s interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.

I didn’t want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven’t done on ‘Glee’ that I could then put on an album… We’ve done everything! Pretty soon we’re just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I’ve been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

So many people didn’t want to touch the project with a 10-foot pole. Literally, I had people laughing and saying, ‘You’re making an album? Good luck.’ … But if you sit down and talk music with me for 10 minutes, you know that’s my passion.

You can’t control it once you turn it into the label, so there’s the expectation that it’ll leak a week before the album comes out. That’s the world we live in.

I got an album coming out with Bibby (No Limitations) we gone do a joint album our first-ever joint album together officially since we started that’s coming this year 2017.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I’ll do the lead vocals

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

I honestly don’t remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it’s always something that just happened.

When I was young, I used to need other people’s albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I’ve got a lot of energy at my shows, I’m very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

When I record an album I’m trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn’t agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don’t know who’s talking to you. Who’s Spotify? Who’s iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don’t understand it.

I don’t really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I’m going to make another album.

I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make – all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.

The only thing I can say, once again, is thank you, to all of you, to everyone who’s supported us so far. From the people who first picked up the phone and voted on x factor, to the people who went into the shop and bought our albums and everybody in between. Thank you so much for a fantastic opportunity and helping me and the boys to where we are today.

I feel like it’s really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

My whole team, it wasn’t about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, ‘Listen, just take ‘Lasers.’ You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.’

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I can’t do anything I want to. I mean, I can’t have my own TV show. I can’t have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I feel like I’m only in the beginning of my career. I’ve only made five albums. It’s not a lot.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

Well, Smoke n’ Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn’t park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

It’s depressing when you’re still around and your albums are out of print.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That’s hard. That’s tough for anybody.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.