"Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts."
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"I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album."
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"There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing."
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"The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales."
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"It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print."
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"When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album."
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"Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment."
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"To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label."
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"It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see."
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"That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring."
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"When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album."
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"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art."
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"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band"
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"The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it."
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"When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head."
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"The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser."
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"I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums."
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"I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want."
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"My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice."
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"If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album."
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