Jackie DeShannon Quotes

The message from 'Analog Man' is that I'm back, and it won't be 20 years until the next album.

I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'

It's a dream come true as I await the release of my debut single 'Krazy Konnection' with Salim Merchant and then my debut album!

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

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'

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

I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

My first album came out in 1979.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.

There's only so much you can do on a physical level trying to tour or pass out mixtapes. Although that matters, I realized that you can reach more people putting your music on Soundcloud and networking with blogs to write about you. It really comes back to the music and what you release.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'

On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.

Four months after we released 'I Don't Want to Be Funny Anymore,' the album came out on EggHunt. Three months after that, we officially signed with Matador. That's not a very long time: half a year between the first flood and the final signing.

I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.

The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.

'Let There Be Love' is going to be my very first international single release after going independent and I'm beyond excited.

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