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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. Ziggy Marley

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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.' Zooey Deschanel

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The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation. Black Thought

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After touring an album, you have this strange void that follows it, where you feel slightly displaced, like you've just finished with the circus and you've got to find a new job. You think, OK, what shall we do next. Robert Del Naja

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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload. Q-Tip

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My dad would play 'The Blue Album' a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that's kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands. Finn Wolfhard

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The bloody nose was the album cover for my first album, but it's since become my logo. Andrew W.K.

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I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal. Leslie Odom, Jr.

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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not. Quavo

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I always grow, every album. Cam'ron

Every Always Grow Album

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it. Harry Connick, Jr.

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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' Henry Rollins

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All of our other albums were consecutive year after year: 'No More Mr. Nice Guy,' 'Step in the Arena,' 'Daily Operation,' 'Hard to Earn.' After 'Hard to Earn,' a four-year gap is a lot of not having Gang Starr music, as far as an album is concerned. DJ Premier

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'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to release it. Jeff Hanneman

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Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something. Steve Miller

Giving Baby Record Record Company Something Like Your Company Gangster Album

I remember going backstage on a random night and Kanye goes, 'Ayo Premier, I'm about to drop an album called 'College Dropout' and I'm rapping on the whole thing. And as I soon it drop it's gonna go double platinum.' I looked at him like, 'That's a bold statement to make if you never rapped before.' DJ Premier

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We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles. Curt Smith

I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs! Anne Murray

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music. Finn Wolfhard

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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for. D'Angelo

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