Albums Quotes

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

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.