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Quotes About Albums

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.
~ John Mellencamp
All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.
~ James Righton
I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.
~ Adam Granduciel
There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.
~ Luke Bryan
I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
~ Little Simz
It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.
~ Mike Will Made It
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.
~ Charles Kelley
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
~ Carolyn Mackler
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
~ Kaskade
We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
~ Tony Visconti
I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
~ Diego Luna
Back in the days before CDs, or even cassette recordings, I would spend hours consumed with listening to rhythmic vinyl record albums, unaware that they infiltrated my subconscious with mystical religiosity.
~ Caryl Matrisciana
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
~ George Jones
I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.
~ Adnan Sami
I grew up listening to my parents' albums. Many of them were either classical - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - or easy listening, like Mantovani. I loved the spectrum of emotions in classical music, from fortissimo to pianissimo. My early passion for classical made my drumming more musical later on.
~ John Densmore
I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.
~ John Carter Cash
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
~ Barry Manilow
couple of dozen CDs in it, mostly albums by American woman singer-songwriters of the offbeat, misunderstood, highly intelligent but intensely emotional school, getting rich selling music to consumers who understand what it's like not to be understood.
~ Neal Stephenson
I just look at capitalizing on everything that I feel like G.O.O.D. Music brings to the music industry, our following, and the culture. First of all, we have incredible artists. It's definitely about getting those albums out in a very manicured fashion.
~ Pusha T
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
~ Prince Royce
The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'
~ J. J. Cale
I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.
~ Jim Sullivan
I always loved Bill's contribution to the early Yes albums. Alan later took over from him and did great things but there was something about Bill's concept of the thinking musician that we've never had since Bill left.
~ Chris Welch
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.
~ Lester Bangs