Albums Quotes - Page 36

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

Stephen Jay Gould

Order, Dull, Causes

Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Herbie Mann

Guitar, Play, Central Park

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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

Waylon Jennings

Kings, Cutting, Long

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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Waylon Jennings

War, White, Guy

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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Bryan Ferry

Song, Art, Writing

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Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

Hunter Hayes

Stories, Chapters

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A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Hunter Hayes

Changing Your Life

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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Amanda Palmer

Song, Records

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

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I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Dr. Dre

Song, Important, Age

"Exclusive: Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Talk Beats Music". Interview with Isaac Guzmán, entertainment.time.com. January 17, 2014.

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You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Lupe Fiasco

Expectations, Labels, World

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My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

Dave Matthews

Beautiful, Dream, Song

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It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

Scott Weiland

Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

Jason Mraz

Song, Writing, Thinking

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At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.

Bow Wow

Daughter, Fun, The End Of The Day

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If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

Tom Odell

Song, Powerful, People

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My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

Liam Gallagher

My Favorite

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I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Wish, Firsts, Roller Coaster

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That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Hips, Reason, Feels

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I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.

Sufjan Stevens

Song, Have Faith

"Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out". Interview with Kate Kiefer, www.pastemagazine.com. November 2, 2009.

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I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

David Crosby

Falling In Love, Firsts, Cement

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I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Bruce Dickinson

Dream, Expression, Years

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

Paul Simon

Lasts, Rate

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When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

Kimbra

Song, Years, People

"Kimbra - And Gotye - Rock SNL" by Allison P. Davis, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.

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I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

Florence Welch

Two, People, Personality

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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

Zedd

Stories, Want, Littles

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