Albums Quotes

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.