We've turned our back on that sort of writing. Bands with great first albums always release a second album about touring, and that's just embarrassing.
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Related The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. HALSEY It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl... JOHN HOGAN We play stuff from all of our albums because our fan base has been with us for so long. Kids are sin... ZACKY VENGEANCE The musical directors of the program just got sent our album, and they just liked it and they wanted... CHARLOTTE COOPER When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping a... DAVE ROWNTREE I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there, CAMERON CROWE I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al... JOHNNY RAMONE The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provinci... STOMPIN' TOM CONNORS We thought Dave would be a great fit, and he's done nothing but prove us correct. With our current a... JEFF LONG Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you... REESE WITHERSPOON I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a ... EMILY HAINES I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky... CHARLIE DANIELS What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and... WALTER BECKER I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just be... SAM SMITH 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 Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. Bu... GARY NUMAN Bill Holman is a legend in jazz who has touched virtually every big band, from schools to touring pr... WAYNE DYESS My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my p... KATE VOEGELE I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, rel... BEBE REXHA I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. ... TAYLOR HAWKINS I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never ... ZAKK WYLDE We have just entered into our new season, with a new producer, a new album and a new label. For me, ... BRYAN PIERCE When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mat... EL DEBARGE With our scene, egos got in the way, and that's always the saddest part about it. There's just that ... MIKE BOUDREAU It is very reminiscent of our other albums. It's a reunion album, though it is quite poignant. GLENN TIPTON He's thrilled that it's doing well and I think that definitely makes him excited about the whole tou... RUSTY ANDERSON 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 We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope ... JT WOODRUFF We're sort of superstitious now. The albums that had the beetle on it did better than the ones that ... JONATHAN CAIN I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. Th... PHILIP DUSENBERRY I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will stil... JASON NEWSTED People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot... TALIB KWELI The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap! JAY-Z I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands.... JAMES MERCER Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about wr... CAMERON CROWE Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb... ADELE After the first Drop, things have just been great for the bands involved. Just an example is Dynamic... CARY KANNO We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that relea... JACK IRONS Dave was a great teammate. He was probably the most skilled player on the team. Whenever I scored a ... PAUL WILLIAMSON The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness... KHALED HOSSEINI Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of c... DANIEL JOHNS I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles. DEBBIE HARRY With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized roma... TAVI GEVINSON We had a great first half and a super second quarter, and then we just held on. MIKE D'ANTONI Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea... EVA LANG I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t... MEL TORME We're going to play two-and-a-half sets. The first set will be a set of songs from past albums. The ... JOSH FOREMAN I've never heard of [Scratch Track], but a band like O.A.R. or Dave Matthews will find chill bands l... JACK ABRAHAM It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet toget... DWIGHT YOAKAM We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album,... RYAN GENTLES We were weary and shell-shocked from two straight years of touring on our first album, three of us h... DAMIAN KULASH The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done. DANIEL JOHNS When the American government turned it's back on God; it turned it's back on the forefathers and ver... NORM TOMLINSON We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just c... CARMEN DOLFO You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming o... BRANDI CARLILE The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've e... CHARLIE DANIELS It's really (about) putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life. TOM FORD When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album, LUIS FONSI We got going in the second quarter with our defense, and they turned it over six times in the first ... ADAM LORIA I've always felt the first five minutes of the second half were critical. That sets a tone. We came ... LUTE OLSON It was a great game. In the second half, we came out and turned up our defensive intensity. ERIC LEVIE The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest an... JANET ERSKINE STUART We had a great first half and a super second quarter. Then we just kind of held on. It is expected i... MIKE D'ANTONI Lonely Runs Both Ways. It's amazing to win for (Country) Album of the Year because we kind of just m... ALISON KRAUSS It's always in the back of our minds. We need to focus on our first couple of games and deal with th... CHAD HENNE Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ... EVA LANG Dave was our patriarch, a great, big lovable man, JACK SCHUESSLER The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, ... JANET ERSKINE STUART Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY We're super excited to be touring with four awesome bands, and we're all big video gamers. I couldn'... JEFF DAVIS Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY 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 They turned it up a notch, and we just couldn't get there. Our kids played hard, but they're very ta... GORDY PRESNELL I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I'v... BECK The first game the girls came out and played very well. In the second game we lost our momentum and ... COACH LORI BELL I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, ... HARUKI MURAKAMI There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there ... WOODY HERMAN I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b... HANNIBAL BURESS A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home NICHOLAS SPARKS After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems t... KARAN MAHAJAN I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ... NEIL DIAMOND I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contain... VANILLA ICE We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as ... CHARLES KELLEY We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album. LARS ULRICH We looked sluggish in the first half and turned it on with defensive pressure in the second half. We... ANDY CAMERON I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contain... VANILLA ICE I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is r... THOMAS HUXLEY I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool... BARBARA BUSH I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock '... JOHN CALE I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urg... ED KOWALCZYK I went through periods where you're just sort of writing things that are supposed to be funny and th... CARTER BAYS Signing on with Robert Yates Racing, it's a dream come true. That (his touring series success) alway... JUSTIN DIERCKS On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried ove... MICHAEL STIPE I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi... T.I. When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ... PUSHA T At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the ba... T.S. ELIOT
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