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TONY OLLER![]()
I've done gospel songs on every album.
DMX Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
AMANDA PALMER![]()
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Trace Adkins helped keep country's traditionalist flame burning during the crossover-happy late '90s...
STEVE HUEY Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE![]()
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in e...
AALIYAH I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
CONWAY TWITTY![]()
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge...
QUENTIN TARANTINO Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on ...
DR. DRE We touched on it a bit on our last album [ The Chronicles of Life and Death ], and there will defini...
BENJI MADDEN The pieces of DNA you find in the Y-chromosome don't go through the same shuffling process that othe...
SPENCER WELLS![]()
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD![]()
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ...
DEYTH BANGER I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW![]()
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#...
VANESSA CARLTON![]()
I didn't feel the inclination to put myself out on a limb that much on my first solo album. I stayed...
CHRISTINE MCVIE![]()
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY The allegations in the indictment about Mr. Adkins are simply not true. We believe that when the cas...
EARL GRAY These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR![]()
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
CAROLYN MACKLER But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are co...
BRYAN FERRY![]()
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We went through hundreds of thousands of galaxies to find a 1-in-1,000 phenomenon.
ADAM BOLTON The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor...
JANJI VINCE This really stands copyright law on its head. There are hundreds of years of tradition that go the o...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
BUBBA SPARXXX![]()
I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.
BUSTA RHYMES![]()
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to...
GOTYE Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out so...
DAN DONEGAN I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
MELISSA JOAN HART Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN I don't do the same show on any two nights.
TRACE ADKINS I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night aft...
TRACE ADKINS It was never intended to make anyone feel uneasy; that was the last thing in the world that I would ...
TRACE ADKINS I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
TRACE ADKINS They know who I am, where I come from, what I'm about. I go out there and it is what it is. If I fee...
TRACE ADKINS I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you coul...
TRACE ADKINS I don't think most people are aware of what a contribution to the sound of country music Buck had.
TRACE ADKINS New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
TRACE ADKINS I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N...
TRACE ADKINS I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is m...
TRACE ADKINS Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matt...
TRACE ADKINS It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar wit...
TRACE ADKINS I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But someti...
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE![]()
[Russian forces] managed to do the impossible -- that is to save lives of hundreds, ... We have prov...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I have probably like 12 to 14 songs I'm playing right now, some I kind of dabble with.
ERIC TEPE![]()
I was lucky that way. I always held on to it and appreciated it, ... The songs on this album were mo...
JASON MRAZ On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci...
STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
MARC ALMOND![]()
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their s...
KAT GRAHAM Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voic...
WILL HERMES![]()
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g...
REBA MCENTIRE![]()
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
FREDDIE MERCURY The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
MACK BRADLEY![]()
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu...
JOHN LEGEND![]()
They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a...
RICK SPRINGFIELD My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS![]()
It's been about 25 years since I did a solo project. I've been working on the new album for the past...
MIKE LOVE I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al...
MARGO TIMMINS We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that o...
GEORGE TAYLOR It's a very diverse album. I felt that the songs just absolutely had to be written. They came out ex...
BRADD SHAPIRO We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I thi...
JOSH DUN There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
WAYNE COYNE I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
DAMIAN MARLEY![]()
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ...
HARRY CONNICK, JR.![]()
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear...
HARRY CONNICK, JR.![]()
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through ...
PATTI SMITH I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on th...
DUNCAN SHEIK We like to go to areas that are not typical of American travel, but we do like to find other choirs ...
JEFFREY SMITH![]()
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's gr...
ANGELINA JOLIE![]()
I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l...
ANDRAE CROUCH If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l...
DEL SHANNON I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everyb...
THOM YORKE Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literatur...
JERRY A. COYNE I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
AWKWAFINA I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
ZEDD The good news is that we (Boeing and Airbus) both think GE-Honeywell is a positive, ... It may well ...
HARRY STONECIPHER We go through an unbelievable amount of paper targets each year. We have hundreds of kids shooting e...
BUD BOWMAN![]()
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I wa...
EULANE MELLON I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO![]()
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs...
STEVE JOBS In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I h...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK![]()
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external scre...
HELENA BLAVATSKY When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album. I like to listen to...
LUIS FONSI![]()
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...
CHARLES DICKENS![]()
Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...
Forever?
...
You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN![]()
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the cre...
GREGG ALLMAN Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the no...
DAVE KEUNING
TONY OLLER
I've done gospel songs on every album. DMX Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
AMANDA PALMER
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ... T-PAIN The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Trace Adkins helped keep country's traditionalist flame burning during the crossover-happy late '90s...
STEVE HUEY Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in e... AALIYAH I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
CONWAY TWITTY
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge... QUENTIN TARANTINO Perhaps I should go on record now and say that there are no songs on this album that refer in any wa...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on ... DR. DRE We touched on it a bit on our last album [ The Chronicles of Life and Death ], and there will defini...
BENJI MADDEN The pieces of DNA you find in the Y-chromosome don't go through the same shuffling process that othe...
SPENCER WELLS
Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... CHRISTINE MCVIE
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art albu...
SHERYL CROW
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#... VANESSA CARLTON
I didn't feel the inclination to put myself out on a limb that much on my first solo album. I stayed... CHRISTINE MCVIE
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t... TORI KELLY The allegations in the indictment about Mr. Adkins are simply not true. We believe that when the cas...
EARL GRAY These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT JR These songs have definitely pushed all of our abilities. I felt like we had to find something that w...
ALBERT HAMMOND JR
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you. CAROLYN MACKLER But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are co...
BRYAN FERRY
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL We went through hundreds of thousands of galaxies to find a 1-in-1,000 phenomenon.
ADAM BOLTON The songs on my first album were such that I started really high and by the time we reached the chor...
JANJI VINCE This really stands copyright law on its head. There are hundreds of years of tradition that go the o...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
BUBBA SPARXXX
I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album. BUSTA RHYMES
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to... GOTYE Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out so...
DAN DONEGAN I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.
MELISSA JOAN HART Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN I don't do the same show on any two nights.
TRACE ADKINS I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night aft...
TRACE ADKINS It was never intended to make anyone feel uneasy; that was the last thing in the world that I would ...
TRACE ADKINS I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
TRACE ADKINS They know who I am, where I come from, what I'm about. I go out there and it is what it is. If I fee...
TRACE ADKINS I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you coul...
TRACE ADKINS I don't think most people are aware of what a contribution to the sound of country music Buck had.
TRACE ADKINS New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
TRACE ADKINS I know there are a lot of country music fans in New York City but the problem with doing a show in N...
TRACE ADKINS I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is m...
TRACE ADKINS Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matt...
TRACE ADKINS It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar wit...
TRACE ADKINS I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But someti...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... DARLENE LOVE
[Russian forces] managed to do the impossible -- that is to save lives of hundreds, ... We have prov... VLADIMIR PUTIN I have probably like 12 to 14 songs I'm playing right now, some I kind of dabble with.
ERIC TEPE
I was lucky that way. I always held on to it and appreciated it, ... The songs on this album were mo... JASON MRAZ On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci...
STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
MARC ALMOND
I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their s... KAT GRAHAM Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voic...
WILL HERMES
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen. FREDDIE MERCURY The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
MACK BRADLEY
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu... JOHN LEGEND
They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a... RICK SPRINGFIELD My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're re...
CHARLIE DANIELS
It's been about 25 years since I did a solo project. I've been working on the new album for the past... MIKE LOVE I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al...
MARGO TIMMINS We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that o...
GEORGE TAYLOR It's a very diverse album. I felt that the songs just absolutely had to be written. They came out ex...
BRADD SHAPIRO We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I thi...
JOSH DUN There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
WAYNE COYNE I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
DAMIAN MARLEY
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the ... HARRY CONNICK, JR.
For this album, I was looking for songs that would be fun to play live. I was really focused on that... BRAD PAISLEY
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespear... HARRY CONNICK, JR.
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through ... PATTI SMITH I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on th...
DUNCAN SHEIK We like to go to areas that are not typical of American travel, but we do like to find other choirs ...
JEFFREY SMITH
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's gr... ANGELINA JOLIE
I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l... ANDRAE CROUCH If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l...
DEL SHANNON I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everyb...
THOM YORKE Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literatur...
JERRY A. COYNE I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
AWKWAFINA I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
ZEDD The good news is that we (Boeing and Airbus) both think GE-Honeywell is a positive, ... It may well ...
HARRY STONECIPHER We go through an unbelievable amount of paper targets each year. We have hundreds of kids shooting e...
BUD BOWMAN
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the... B. B. KING Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I wa...
EULANE MELLON I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs... STEVE JOBS In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I h...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external scre... HELENA BLAVATSKY When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album. I like to listen to...
LUIS FONSI
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS
Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?...
Forever?
...
You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the cre... GREGG ALLMAN Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly o...
JAMIE KING That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the no...
DAVE KEUNING
I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh... 
I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography... 
I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ni... 