FastSaying

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.


Ace Frehley

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of fores...
ACE FREHLEY I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to ...
GEORGE THOROGOOD I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi...
T.I. I was hoping the album would do well. But the nomination gives it a little validation, I guess. I me...
DANA LANDRY I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit...
GARY WRIGHT When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k...
TOM HOLLAND Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a...
KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a sol...
BILL WYMAN I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE Ace is very reclusive. That was really one of the first tracks that I did for the album. I met Ace b...
KATHY VALENTINE Ace is very reclusive. That was really one of the first tracks that I did for the album. I met Ace b...
KATHY VALENTINE I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW I knew we were cutting hits when we did the album. It's Barbra Streisand we're talking about, so I k...
HAROLD COWART I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those f...
BRUCE COCKBURN I know that we ask a lot for our fans with every album, but I think that's how it should be. This al...
KJETIL NORDHUS My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such ...
SHIRLEY MANSON I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS That was no fly ball, that was a line drive, ... I knew I had no chance to catch that ball. Did you ...
EMIL BROWN The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.
CASSADEE POPE I didn't feel the inclination to put myself out on a limb that much on my first solo album. I stayed...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I don't like the phrase 'sophomore jinx. But it was there in my head: This album had to be much bett...
HEATHER HEADLEY I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro...
ALAN PARSONS And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
WANDA JACKSON The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
HALSEY I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,
ERIC CLAPTON I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#...
VANESSA CARLTON All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. ...
ISAAC HAYES 'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY After my last solo album in '93, I got heavily into the film-composing thing. I didn't really have m...
STANLEY CLARKE I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just kn...
CHINUA ACHEBE The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi...
BEN SCHOTT I knew he had bought the ring but I had no idea he was going to ask me this morning. It was a comple...
JULIE WILLIAMS When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'T...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL You know, the original album title was going to be 'Bad Girl Trapped in a Good Girl Body,' ... But I...
CHRISTINE LAVIN Oh, no, someone asked me how fast did I think the offense was going to score. I said, 'I don't know....
DARNELL BING And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert...
WANDA JACKSON Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb...
ADELE All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... A...
ALICE COOPER I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal...
JULIE LONDON I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
JEREMY SISTO I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest ...
WILLIAM ORBIT I felt a little nervous when the album was coming out because I did it with Joel and Benji [Madden],...
HILARY DUFF My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I wa...
KENNY CHESNEY I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doi...
TYLER HILTON A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multi...
JULIE ROBERTS My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu...
JOHN LEGEND I've been astounded by the reception. I knew it was going to be well-received because of focus group...
GENE DETROYER United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an...
JOHN ASTIN It was dislocated, but I didn't know it, ... My adrenaline was pumping, and I knew it hurt, but I ha...
ANDY VAN SLYKE I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obvious...
KINA GRANNIS I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude.
JAMIE FOXX I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st...
PATTI SMITH I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever...
SLASH I love singing and I'd be thrilled if my album did well.
DEBRA STEPHENSON I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.
DAVID SANBORN I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was al...
PSY I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what...
SALLY KIRKLAND When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a back...
MARK PASDON I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at...
BRIAN ENO Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first ti...
ROBERT PALMER When Tim moved away it got really difficult. We had a couple shows, but it was too hard. I knew when...
AIMEE ARGOTE We recorded the album ourselves. It's a very raw-sounding disc. We got grilled (by critics) for how ...
DREW BENTON My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n...
BILL DIXON It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
CANELO ALVAREZ I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
DON JOHNSON 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
YANDEL When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I u...
PRINCE ROYCE When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra...
DICKEY BETTS I knew I was going to have a great night because I was well-prepared, well-focused. You know when yo...
ROBBIE EARL I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. ...
ISABEL WOLFF I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al...
JOHNNY RAMONE When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormo...
JACQUELINE NGUYEN My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.
RITA ORA From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone ...
JIMMY PAGE I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
RITA RUDNER When I eventually met Mr Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
RITA RUDNER Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. STINE My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a ...
ALAN JACKSON I knew he was going to be a factor and I knew he could do well.
DAVID MALDONADO The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I ...
ALAN PARSONS I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity w...
CONAN O'BRIEN So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to th...
SONNY TERRY The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUNISHER The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUN I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
DIMEBAG DARRELL I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER We wanted to make something that represented what we were actually doing, ... The first album was OK...
ALVIN LEE I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela...
EVAN GLODELL Radio is a transient business and a career was important to me, so I knew I had to do what I had to ...
GARY DEGRAIDE I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going ...
LARRY DOBY

More Ace Frehley

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and...
ACE FREHLEY I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good thing...
ACE FREHLEY I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't thin...
ACE FREHLEY The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
ACE FREHLEY I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
ACE FREHLEY I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
ACE FREHLEY Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
ACE FREHLEY The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is proba...
ACE FREHLEY Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the...
ACE FREHLEY People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
ACE FREHLEY I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
ACE FREHLEY Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed th...
ACE FREHLEY I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the en...
ACE FREHLEY I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of fores...
ACE FREHLEY I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit...
ACE FREHLEY I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
ACE FREHLEY That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there t...
ACE FREHLEY I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick...
ACE FREHLEY I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's goin...
ACE FREHLEY When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and t...
ACE FREHLEY I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
ACE FREHLEY I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the...
ACE FREHLEY I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental ...
ACE FREHLEY I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
ACE FREHLEY Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
ACE FREHLEY Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed th...
ACE FREHLEY America is huge.
ACE FREHLEY A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
ACE FREHLEY As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anythi...
ACE FREHLEY I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...
ACE FREHLEY I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be...
ACE FREHLEY I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tin...
ACE FREHLEY I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
ACE FREHLEY One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
ACE FREHLEY I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's wh...
ACE FREHLEY It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm th...
ACE FREHLEY I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I...
ACE FREHLEY I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I th...
ACE FREHLEY I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
ACE FREHLEY It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I&...
ACE FREHLEY I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
ACE FREHLEY By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that...
ACE FREHLEY I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with...
ACE FREHLEY I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
ACE FREHLEY I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda ...
ACE FREHLEY I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefull...
ACE FREHLEY For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more a...
ACE FREHLEY If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
ACE FREHLEY One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really ...
ACE FREHLEY We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.
ACE FREHLEY I keep reading between the lies.
GOODMAN ACE The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s...
GOODMAN ACE Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
GOODMAN ACE Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.
GOODMAN ACE I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
GOODMAN ACE I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you cant recall it, forg...
GOODMAN ACE Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating
GOODMAN ACE I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canââ‚...
GOODMAN ACE TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medi...
GOODMAN ACE The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's
GOODMAN ACE I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one
GOODMAN ACE Team roping is his event and steer wrestling is mine. So, we're OK with it.
ACE CAMPBELL We didn't plan to come to Troy University together, it just happened.
ACE CAMPBELL TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medi...
GOODMAN ACE I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can’t recall it, fo...
GOODMAN ACE Familiarity breeds attempt.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Always follow your dreams, never look behind, hold your head up high and walk to the sky.
AMAR ACE PATTI I'm a ragged individualist.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
ACE ANTONIO HALL Inhale every blessing you can think of, and exhale all that is not. Like a fist that can always get ...
ACE ANTONIO HALL The ultimate irony in this vast struggle (available to audience members who want to think about it b...
ACE G. PILKINGTON The chickens have come home to roast.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Time wounds all heels.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Home wasn't built in a day.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE