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"Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map."
"The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums."
"Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me."
"You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)"
"When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character."
"So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact."
"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
"The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work."
"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."
"If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage."
"Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice."
"A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in."
"I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums."
"When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade."
"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
"When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial."
"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."
"I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer."
"I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything."
"The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno."
