Albums Quotes - Page 40

• I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

  Gloria Estefan

  Night, Awards, Bus

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• You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.

  Gloria Estefan

  Latin, September, Language

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• I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

  Clay Aiken

  Song, Taken, Two

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

  Justin Bieber

  Hard Work, Play, Fans

  The Justin Bieber‏ @TheJustinBieber, twitter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Headbanger's Ball", MTV Europe, December 10, 1996.

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• So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.

  Billy Joel

  Mother, Girlfriend, Play

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• Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Fun, Boys

  "Roth still 'Runnin' with the Devil' on bluegrass tribute". John Gerome, The Associated Press, June 5, 2006.

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• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of 'Narrow Stairs,' but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  Ben Gibbard

  Dark, Next, Tone

  "Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard: 'The Next Record Will Be Softer'". Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. October 8, 2008.

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• It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

  James Taylor

  People, Easier, Figures

  "James Taylor: Streaming Businesses Should Pay Artists Half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Expression, Energy

  "The Great Lost Kate Bush Interview". Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Past, Thinking, Labels

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

  Kylie Minogue

  Song, Ends, Havens

  Clash Magazine Interview, May 7, 2010.

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• Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.

  Margo Timmins

  Quiet, Bigs

  "Cowboy Junkies intensify the energy on 'Miles From Our Home'" by Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. October 28, 1998.

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• It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Successful, Quiet, Kind

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• I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music.  I'm not looking at the calendar.

  One Be Lo

  Summer, Goal, Quality

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• I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're more in-tune with the customers and I'm willing to pay the extra dollar or two for the service they provide. Some of my greatest music discoveries have come from picking up an album at an indy store and the cat behind the register saying "You like this man? Have you heard of so-and-so?" I prefer to shop where people understand me and the music- the music i like.

  Brother Ali

  Appreciation, Cat, Independent

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• Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

  Emma Stone

  Song, Names, Musician

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Remembrance

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• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

  Martin Bashir

  Literature, Royalty, Thrillers

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• Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

  Erykah Badu

  Sound, Projects

  "Erykah Badu Introduces Her Cannabinoids Crew". Interview with Brad Wete, www.complex.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones.

  Drake

  Song, Artist, People

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

  Bernie Taupin

  Forget, Shelves, Worst

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Nice, Cutting

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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