Music Singles Quotes

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

I remember my first albums: Brandy's first album and Usher's 'My Way.'

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'

I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.

The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.

I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

Obviously I am a huge Major Lazer fan.

I can say 100% that Westlife is not breaking up.

I'm the type, when I used to go to the record store I used to buy two or three copies of certain records so I've got a pretty large selection of a lot of 12 inches.

The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

In the West, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber are the face of their songs.

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.

I enjoy putting out singles.

I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' the single! Bless my mum - don't know what she was thinkin'!

I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.