Albums Quotes - Page 20

• I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Firsts, Flukes, Made

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Tv Shows, World

  "Lou Reed: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Next, Subjects

  "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

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• When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

  Lou Reed

  Perfect, Trying, Records

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• Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

  Christina Ricci

  Night, Different, My Favorite

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• If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

  Kid Rock

  Song, People, Buying

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• As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.

  Kid Rock

  Hands, Talking, People

  «From This Week's Billboard: Kid Rock Rides With iTunes» by Jason Lipshutz, www.billboard.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

  Nile Rodgers

  Song, Thinking, Stories

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• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Party, Hard Work, Awards

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• I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

  Ja Rule

  Confused, People, Want

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

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Long, People

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• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  Ed Sheeran

  Girl, Song, Writing

  "Ed Sheeran Talks Tattoos, Taylor Swift, and Drinking Tequila with the Royal Family" by Hilary Sheinbaum, www.elle.com. July 12, 2013.

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• 'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

  Rob Sheffield

  Queens, Fighting, Boys

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• Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.

  Jordin Sparks

  Sweet, Couple, Powerful

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• If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Believe, Giving

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• Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

  Angie Stone

  Karma, Song, Feelings

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• I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

  George Strait

  Thinking, Lasts, Different

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• A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

  Taylor Swift

  Giving, Records, Development

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• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Letdowns

  Interview with Aaron Gell, www.elle.com. March 4, 2010.

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• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Thinking, My Own

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• I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Ideas, Different

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• I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

  Justin Timberlake

  Wanted, Knows

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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  Justin Timberlake

  Trying, Sound, Records

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• I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

  Josh Turner

  Land, Titles, Done

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