Albums Quotes - Page 34

• We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

  Charles Kelley

  Want, Pressure

  "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

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• 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

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• This album was designed to touch your soul.

  R. Kelly

  Rock And Roll, Soul, Your Soul

  Song: Weatherman, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

  John Deacon

  Country, Thinking, Clubs

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• Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

  David Knopfler

  Vacation, Fancy Cars, Schemes

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• I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.

  Diana Krall

  Writing, Mean, Artist

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• The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

  Solange Knowles

  Dream, Father, Block

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

  Toby Keith

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, People, Three

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• To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

  Method Man

  Next, Should, Yeah

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• My first album came out in 1979.

  Teena Marie

  Firsts

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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  Vanessa Mae

  People, Connections, Best Experiences

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• When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

  Vanessa Mae

  Years, Pills, Teens

  "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

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• I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

  Joanna Newsom

  Voice, People, Track

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Stupid, People

  "Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Rock And Roll

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• I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

  Grant-Lee Phillips

  Way, Made, Process

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• It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

  Abbey Lincoln

  People, Max, Firsts

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• You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

  Dave Lombardo

  Sides, Pops

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• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  Huey Lewis

  Sports, Fall, June

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• Didn't Lionel Richie just make a country album? No one is giving him a hard time... and God bless him - I love Lionel and should be able to do what he wants to do, like Madonna should, too. Both are having success and I applaud them. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The ageism criticism is getting old.

  Guy Oseary

  Country, Hard Times, Giving

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• I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

  Ron Pope

  Writing, Release

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• I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

  Alan Parsons

  Honor, Related, Robotics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

  Andy Partridge

  Hate, Frustration, Joy

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