Jeff Ament Quotes

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

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

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.

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

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

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape.

I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

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.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

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.

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.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

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 have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.