Unreleased Tracks Quotes

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

I got songs; I just never release them. I don't know why. A lot of people say I need to put it out. I guess I haven't made it my focus.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.

Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.

Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There's a song that has yet to be released - it might come to light at some point in the near future - that when I was writing it, I was really proud of it lyrically.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.

After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I've ever made.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.