“Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.” PeoplePoliticalSupportPiecesAlbums Author:Sean Paul
“For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.” WantStoriesSongEnvironmentPiecesColorAlbums Author:Jon Foreman
“My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.” ThinkingMadeStillsDifferentPlayAbleFatherNumbersPiecesInfluenceInstrumentsSevenMusicalAlbumsVariousTechniqueTeensClassical MusicMusical Instruments Author:Steve Hackett
“If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.” IfsThinkingWorldWantFirstsArtWould BeAbleSongPiecesPaintingSevenAlbumsAdmireIf I CouldPublishing Author:Axl Rose
“I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.” IfsKnowsTryingDoeProblemJoyRecordsPiecesDifficultyAlbumsDimensions Author:Richard Ashcroft
“All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.” ThinkingFirstsLittlesBigsSongSoundFivePiecesAlbumsStudiosCombinationTapeSkeletonsAmplifiers Author:Robby Krieger
“The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the first album. ... Even though it was the same musicians, the same artist, the same studio, the same producer, - it felt like a completely different piece of a puzzle.” FirstsDifferentArtistFeltPiecesPlanetsMusicianAlbumsStudiosProducersPuzzles Author:Katie Melua
“It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.” WritingKindMadeHardFactsNamesPiecesGroupsRocksBandAlbumsHeavyNewspapersConfusionRevolutionaryBritainMetalsPurpleFuriousGreat BritainHeavy MetalDeep Purple Author:Roger Glover
“I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and that decided me to stop. What bothered me most was not playing guitar at all anymore. I felt I had no more contact with the instrument. It was just a piece of wood to me. I even thought music had definitely left me. After fourteen albums, there may be an overload phase, a sort of lassitude.” MayTwoThreeLeftFeltPiecesDecidedInstrumentsGuitarAlbumsWoodsContactPhasesBotheredFourteenPlaying GuitarOverloadReplay Author:Richard Pinhas
“One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.” HardAttitudePiecesAlbumsMy AttitudeLayoutSequencing Author:Squarepusher