Quotes About Album

John was putting out his first solo album, an extraordinary revelation about himself. No one at the time made an album that intimate.

There is time to play and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I Am' is the album that displays a little growth. The record, to me, is bringing the streets back.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.

After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

One night David decided to start a spoken word album; David loved Iggy's stories about his days with The Stooges. For a few nights in a row, David, and I sat in the darkened studio asking Iggy questions with the tape rolling. The stories were both decadent and hilarious. I have never heard these tapes since; they would make perfect Podcasts.