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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'
I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.
I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.
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.
Scotty Johnson is a guy who I've worked with on a lot of my tours and albums, and I'm always blown away by his musical knowledge and playing.
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.
I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.
At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."
All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.
I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.
James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.
You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.
I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!
The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.
I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it.
When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.
At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.