Quotes About Album

Wings had become a formidable live band, in which Seiwell's fluid drumming and Henry's sleek lead playing were crucial. Paul was dying to tour Australia and America, huge markets for both the Beatles and himself, but he held off until Wings were ready. At the end of the British tour, they were. And then they were gone, just as he was about to record a hit album to take on tour.

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

It was an Édith Piaf album, Chansons Parisiennes.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

The Ghost Machine album was actually written when I was going through spiritual depression, as that was written right after Motograter and just prior to Five Finger Death Punch.

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see him live, the way he moves, what he does - nothing is planned.

Coming off the back of the live album, there was a certain edginess and an almost punk energy that I've missed for a while.

It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

It became apparent to me near the end of the album cycle for 'House Of Gold & Bones' that it had basically run its course. But the band kept pushing for more dates, and I was just, like, 'It's time to stop!'

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because it was a big album.

When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.

Chaos A.D.' starts normal, but then it breaks into all these crazy fragments. But the things that surprised people is what makes the album cool.

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

I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in L.A.; later, he agreed to shoot the cover for my album 'Call Me Irresponsible' for free. I was so fat at the time, and he made me look as good as I possibly could.

By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

I think people are entitled to have a new album by Wilson Pickett in their homes every year.