Top 499 Albums Quotes

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

I adore The Maccabees and I think they’re completely not given the recognition they deserve at all. ‘Wall Of Arms’ is one of those albums that just gets to you.

There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I’m such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George Strait albums because the songwriting’s so strong.

My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.

When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this small indie label Just Music, they’d gotten no real profile. So I kind of turned away from the solo thing a bit.

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period – I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days – but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

‘The W’ was real dark to me. Out of all the Wu-Tang albums, I like the first one and the second one. When ‘The W’ came into play, and the other ones, I felt they were just thrown together fast. Everyone got their money, and it was just like, ‘Whatever, whatever, whatever.’ ‘The W’ was a real dark album.

If I had come out with an album called ‘Brendon Urie Does…’ everyone would have been like, ‘Who?’ Even five albums in, I’m still faceless wherever I go, which is great.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I joined Elton John’s band in ’75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me do the orchestrations. Then I left the band and started producing records. I was not really a popular kind of hit music guy. I was attracted to more esoteric things.

I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It’s quite extraordinary, and it’s actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect. I don’t know who I will collaborate with, but there’s a great chance of something happening.

We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn’t have to continue a formula or produce a certain number of singles. Because, in those days, radio was still playing albums. That was really good.

If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I’m busy so they’ll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that’s very important.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I don’t like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I’m an obsessed mixer and I can’t leave it alone.

One of my favorite albums that I’ve been listening to lately is ‘Midnight Machines’ by Lights.

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.

Brian Eno is an iconic and omnipresent pioneer in the world of ambient music, but he’s gained real staying power while working behind the boards. He’s produced albums for some of modern music’s most influential artists, including Devo, David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads.

When we were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I asked the guy who runs it, ‘How many people in here have had only two albums?’ He could not think of one person.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn’t want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt – and not in an arrogant way – that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.

I’m growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again.

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they’re supposed to start liking it, and when they’re supposed to start buying it. And that’s trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn’t like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.

If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums – two, really. ‘Out Of The Cradle,’ I had already left because we’d done ‘Tango In The Night,’ and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

You can’t just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I’ll go to the gym and put on old albums – Guns N’ Roses or old Jay-Z.

Future put out nine projects in a row that’s all hits. ‘Dirty Sprite 2’ is one of the best albums ever.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

I could go in and make albums how Master P was doing it every three months but I don’t want to do that. I could probably do it and make a lot of money and all that but I would disappoint myself.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians’ albums and watching them on TV, on ‘The Tonight Show’ and Letterman.

I’ve got six solo albums. I’ve been round the world three times. I don’t even think about the Roses.

There’s so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was ‘Help!’ by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

I asked a lot of my artist friends and just friends in general what their favorite albums of all time were. I made this massive list and I just listened to all of them, all the way through.

I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I’ll be sitting there listening.

I’ve been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman – on their albums, they really tell it like it is.

Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they’re one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That’s the place we’d like be in someday.

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it’s a lot more fulfilling.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and ‘OK Computer’ is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like ‘Electioneering’ just rips right through me.

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don’t feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I’m cool with the albums I’ve done. I don’t have to put out another album.

I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I don’t know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.