Album Impact Quotes

The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he had always talked about around the house. He always talked about it as the 'greatest concept album of all time.' One day, I started listening to it, and it just hit me. I was like, 'These songs are all hits. They're all huge songs.'

'Far Beyond Driven' was a record that was probably ahead of its time, and to this day, it still sounds as fresh as just about any other band that's out there. It was a record that was pushed to another level.

I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that I can introduce some new listeners to this world of instrumental music.

I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.

I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

'Loveless' was a really big record for me. It was what was keeping me alive when I was still touring with Redd Kross.

Every Mr. Big album is an event.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

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

There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.

I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me.

I'm curious to know how many newborn babies will be named Jeremih after my second album.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.

Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.

The first few songs of the album 'Little Earthquakes' were unlike anything I'd ever heard.

'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

2112' basically set the course for my musical career and how I approached Dream Theater.