“An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.” WorldBodyArtistSongRecordsConceptsRadioAlbumsExcitedTeenagerBuyingTrustedPoppies Author:Christopher Bollen
“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.” ThinkingWantFeelsMayDifferentRealSongParentSpaceSituationRight NowDrugPercentTrackAlbumsIntenseFeel GoodLots Of MoneyAutobiographyReal Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.” LooksDifferentSongTreeSingingTiredPlantPaintAlbumsBoredFar AwayPlant A Tree Author:Jason Mraz
“To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.” WritingNightSongProcessFansMy FavoriteAlbumsEvery Night Author:Eric Hutchinson
“I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.” WritingLittlesI CanEndsSometimesSongReadingBitsLittle BitNewsEverydayAlbumsFinished Author:Jack Johnson
“I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.” ThinkingShouldPlayWould BeSongFeetEasierShotsRadioAlbumsTurned Down Author:Jessie Ware
“You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.” WantWritingDifferentSongPlansAlbumsTitlesDifferent Things Author:Mary J. Blige
“The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.” WantTryingSongVoiceViewsFocusAlbumsPoint Of ViewPartnersDuets Author:John Legend
“What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You can remember every line to their songs. But today, how often do you remember any of the lines to songs? I mean, I know that one of the Lily Allen's last albums is called It's Not Me, It's You. But I don't know how the songs go.” KnowsMeanTodayLastsRememberSongLinesKnow HowMusic IsStonesAlbumsRollingLiliesRolling Stones Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.” WorldMindChildrenRememberSongSeriousProjectsSingingAlbumsWrapsChristmas DaySinging Songs Author:Mary J. Blige
“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
“My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSongSuccessfulRight NowConceptsRadioAlbumsVideoObedientEscaping Author:Lauryn Hill
“I think a lot of times, artists and albums can become formulaic. You're known for a certain thing, and you continue to do that. You just change the subject matter, but it's the same song. And that's what you do.” ThinkingMatterArtistCertainSongKnownSubjectsAlbumsSubject Matter Author:Eric Church
“For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesDoneWholeSongBitsNumbersOne ThingLittle BitAlbumsInsecurityGoing To WorkPredictingNervousness Author:John Legend
“I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.” WritingDreamLastsSongRiversOriginalsAlbumsTunesWriting SongsWriting Music Author:Billy Joel
“To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep.” IfsWantMeanSongEasyWrittenAlbums Author:Jason Mraz
“To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.” WritingSongHalfAlbumsRubbish Author:Jason Mraz