Bernard Sumner Quotes

Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.

I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

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.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

I definitely listened to Lauryn Hill - her's was like the first album I bought myself. Brandy's Never Say Never and Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill were always in rotation for a couple of years.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

I love albums that have guest performers that the audience will be happy to hear. It's really a bonus!

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.