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“Everybody of my generation has the same memory. We were twelve or thirteen or we were twenty-one, for that matter, and we were going to be veterinarians or we were, like Ringo, going to own a hairdresser’s parlor. We walked into the record store and saw the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We thought together, 'Life can be other than it has been.”

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Book:Idea of Home

Source: Idea of Home

“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.”

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Author:Jay Reatard

“During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.”

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Author:Jay Reatard

“I refuse to write out lyrics for any of my domestic releases. I remember when I was 11 or 12 years old and I would listen to a song over and over and I would make up my own lyrics because I couldn't understand what they were saying. And later when I got the internet I googled the lyrics: What was he really saying?”

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Author:Jay Reatard

“On Achtung Baby U2 took conventional tracks and radicalized them; on this material U2 is taking radical tracks and covering them with a veneer of convention.”

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Book:U2 at the End of the World

Source: U2 at the End of the World

“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.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

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

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Author:Method Man

“There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.”

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Author:Stephen Malkmus

“My first album came out in 1979.”

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Author:Teena Marie

“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.”

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Author:Vanessa Mae

“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.”

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Author:Vanessa Mae

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

Mind Song Albums Solo Of My Mind

Author:Graham Nash

“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.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

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

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Author:Frank Ocean

“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.”

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Author:Gerald Caiafa

“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.”

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Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“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.”

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Author:Abbey Lincoln

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

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Author:Dave Lombardo

“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.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“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.”

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Author:Guy Oseary

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

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Author:Ron Pope

“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.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“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.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.”

People Political Support Pieces Albums

Author:Sean Paul

“The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“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.”

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Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.”

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Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.”

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Author:Johnny Ramone

“I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.”

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Author:Fred Seibert

“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”

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Author:Andy Summers

“I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.”

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Author:Beanie Sigel

“I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

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Author:John Stamos

“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.”

“Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?”

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Author:Jeff Lynne

“It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.”

People Simple Albums Old Days

Author:Jeff Lynne

“I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.”

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Author:Jo Stafford

“I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.”

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Author:Terry Southern

“I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.”

Right Now Albums Hopefully January

Author:Obie Trice

“I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.”

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Author:Peter Tosh

“I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.”

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Author:Pia Toscano

“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.”

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Author:Keith Urban

“The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.”

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Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.”

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Author:Bernie Worrell

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