Quotes About Albums

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

I like to try to analyse structures of different albums and see what kind mine might be similar to.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Drake is super versatile. He always has a lot of emotional moments on his albums.

I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my stamp albums. I believed they contained his unspoken words, which one day would explain everything. I have not changed. Now I explore my memories, trying to discover the substructure hidden beneath my past actions, searching for the link to connect them all.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

I don't like to listen to my older albums. They frighten me. I can't explain it. It's so subjective. It's so personal. I cannot listen to my first album, ever. Never, never, never.

I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.