Albums Quotes

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.