Albums Quotes - Page 16

• We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Different, Would Be

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

  Alice Cooper

  Rocks, Band, Coincidence

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• I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

  DMX

  Song, Records

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• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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• Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Song, People, Records

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• Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

  Jonathan Davis

  Nice, Issues, Deals

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• It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

  Jonathan Davis

  Rocks, Band, Back In The Day

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• I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

  Mos Def

  Song, Ideas, Space

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• Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Awards, Hector

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

  Bruce Dickinson

  Form, Artwork, Album Covers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

  Drake

  Needs, Labels, Stores

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• When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

  Sheena Easton

  Tunes, Made, Blast

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• I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Musical, Theater, Musical Theater

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• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  Idris Elba

  Song, Leading Ladies, Ifs

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• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  Idris Elba

  Tattoo, Song, Culture

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• The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

  Eminem

  Focus, Certain, Mines

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• If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Would Be, World

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• I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

  Gloria Estefan

  Tongue, Firsts, Done

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• I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

  Paloma Faith

  Want, I Can

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• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  Paloma Faith

  Art, School, Ideas

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• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  Paloma Faith

  Legacy, Excited, Possibility

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• It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Light, Together, Weight

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• 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.'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Team, Independent, Lasers

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• I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

  Ace Frehley

  New York, Stars, Rocks

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• What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

  John Frusciante

  Fun, Home, Records

  "John Frusciante: Dear Guitar Hero". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.guitarworld.com. May 11, 2009.

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