Brantley Gilbert Quotes

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

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

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.

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

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

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.

The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

People don't realize I make records eight or nine months before they come out. I'm directing the videos; I have a lot of work to do. I'm very involved in all that stuff creatively.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.