Albums Quotes - Page 18

• My first album was completed in three months.

  Adam Lambert

  Three, Months, Firsts

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• One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.

  Jon Landau

  Thinking, Rocks, Advice

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• 'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Green, Als

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• Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Voice, Special

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• Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Voice, Sound

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• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Accomplishment, Creative

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

  Jon Landau

  Style, Together, Records

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• I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Needed, Wanted

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• It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Fun, Kids

  "Talk Asia", edition.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Clothes, Guy

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

  Denis Leary

  Grateful, Zeppelins, Hated

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• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  Geddy Lee

  Artist, People, Groups

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan talk albums vs singles". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

  Annie Lennox

  Want, Corporations, Certain

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

  Lindsay Lohan

  Song, Writing, Helping

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• Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Song, Space, Track

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• A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

  Miriam Makeba

  Reflection, Careers, Music Career

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• My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

  Shirley Manson

  Beautiful, Funeral, Made

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• I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

  Chris Martin

  Moments, Loses

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• I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

  Chris Martin

  Artwork

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• When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

  Chris Martin

  Expectations, Fifth, Previous Work

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• 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.

  Chris Martin

  World, Feels, Stills

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• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  Chris Martin

  Horse, Trying, Nascar

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• Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Kids, Years

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• I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

  Scotty McCreery

  Nashville, Want, Scotty

  "American Idol's Scotty McCreery on Dating Rumors: Lauren and I Sound Great Together". www.foxnews.com. May 26, 2011.

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