Buddy Rich Quotes

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

My first album was completed in three months.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

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 put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

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

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

'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.

Nobody really produces my albums.

In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn't expected that at all.

When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn't want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.

We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

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.