Albums Quotes - Page 21

• I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Home, Long

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• Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

  Shania Twain

  People, Looks, Platinum

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

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• I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page.

  Carrie Underwood

  Grateful, Thinking, Together

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• It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Revenge, Hate

  "Carrie Underwood's June 2012 Cover Shoot Gallery", www.glamour.com. June 2012.

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• I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

  Steve Vai

  Independent, Artist, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  Ville Valo

  People, One Day, Done

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• The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Germany, Way, Next

  "Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert". The NPR.org Interview, www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

  Gerard Way

  Glue, Stories, Incredibles

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• The Black Parade is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

  Gerard Way

  Epic, Black, Records

  "My Chemical Romance Reveal Details About 'Daring' Concept LP" by Chris HArris, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2006.

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• I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

  Lil Wayne

  Believe, Inspiration, Media

  "Watch Lil Wayne Bowling With Katie Couric For Grammy Special!" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 02, 2009.

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• I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

  Lil Wayne

  School, Firsts, Solo

  "The Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2". Documentary, 2010.

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• If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Want, Being The Best

  "Lil Wayne Says He Turned To Rock Because He Got 'Tired' Of Rapping" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. April 01, 2009.

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• I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Years, Names

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• I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

  Florence Welch

  Might, Stuff, Fit

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Swimming, Age

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• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  Florence Welch

  Character, Hair, Choices

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• I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

  Kanye West

  Men, Play, Safe

  "Kanye West in the Studio: Beats Down! Money Up! (2000-2006)". Book by Jake Brown, 2006.

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• You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

  Ron White

  Years, Twelve, Ems

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. October 24, 2006.

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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• George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

  Steven Wright

  Home, School, Class

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• In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Music, Rocks, Views

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• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  Kailash Kher

  Bollywood, Have Faith, Made

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• We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

  Natalie Angier

  Looks, Why Not, Moments

  Natalie Angier (2009). “The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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