Albums Quotes

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche,' we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

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?

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

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 mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

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.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

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.

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.