Jay Reatard Quotes

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

I've always wanted to make a record.

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

My next baby will be my new record.

I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

My first album was completed in three months.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.