Top 1200 Album Cover Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

I feel like every album we make, that's our debut album.

I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

Production-wise, 'Looks Like a Job For... ' is an incredible album. I think that the weak point of the album was really me.

'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually the first song I wrote for the album without realizing it yet. I think I wanted to name the album that because it seemed like that was just the theme of that chapter in my life and just the theme of all the songs put together.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

'Apricot Princess' is like an inside album. You can listen to the album and feel all of those emotions within one night.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

I really love 'Mr. Rager.' I know the first album is incredible, but my favorite Kid Cudi album is the second one.

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

I have to go into the studio to make my second album knowing I'm making an album. When I first started making songs I didn't have an album in mind, that's why a lot of them I like - I'm talking about how I haven't got a deal, how I'm living, you can never really top the first time, but we'll see how it goes.

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

Well, I think it's kind of interesting how the Osmond name has been really seen on both sides of the pendulum. There's obviously the bubblegum side, but for people who really know about music, it's clear on the other side. As a matter of fact, I find it quite ironic that Metallica used to cover 'Crazy Horses.' It was a cutting-edge album.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

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

The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'

I'm so proud to be a real woman, a size 14 woman on the cover of a magazine like 'Ralph.' Women's publications rarely put size 14 women on the cover, let alone men's, so I'm really honoured and proud to be on the cover and representing curvy, sexy women out there.

The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.

I'm listening to a lot of Drake, and a lot of Frank Sinatra just because it's his centennial also. I'm going to be doing some tributes to him this year. I love that Beck album. It was funny to me because my two favorite albums of the year were definitely the Beyonce album and the Beck album.

The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.

I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.

I'm not anti-Hollywood; not at all. In fact, I'm rather fascinated by everything that goes on here. When I get hold of a copy of 'Variety,' I read it cover to cover; I love to know what people are doing.

There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album.

There's no grace period between album one and album two.

So you go to Brookings, or you go to Heritage or others, they know their position on any subject before they research it. If you go to an investment bank, they know what parts of the world they are going to cover and what parts of the world they are not going to cover depending on client interest. We cover the world without being skewed by that. And that makes it more valuable.

I love playing Rick Ross' 'Port of Miami' album. Jeezy's 'Thug Motivation 101' is a classic in my opinion, and I still listen to that album to this day. I'm a big fan of OutKast, so pretty much any album they put out is great in my opinion, but I find myself listening to 'Aquemini' a lot. Anything Kendrick Lamar does is great.

I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the music but also the music video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.

I was offered an opportunity to do the Sports Illustrated cover when they did the skin cover with Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey. That to me was compromising my integrity of who I was and everything that I stand for.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

Even when he was just a reality-TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in 'Time.' But that wasn't true. The 'Time' cover is a fake. There was no 1 March 2009 issue of 'Time' magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover.

In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

The word 'album' makes you nervous, especially 'debut album.'

I wanna do a God album, a positive album so the kids and everybody will understand what's going on.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.