Yanni

Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

Greek Musician

Rihanna

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

American Musician

Florence Welch

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

English Musician

Zacky Vengeance

We wanna be on the frontlines of everything new and exciting. The old world order of putting out four singles before you release an album is so boring to us.

Taylor Swift

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

American Singer

Tupac Shakur

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

American Rapper

Miranda Lambert

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish.

Japanese Composer

Aaliyah

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

Dusty Hill

Albums can be traditional books or digital collections, like on social media.

Physical or Digital

Albums often hold sentimental value and preserve personal history.

Personal Treasure

Albums are usually organized by themes like weddings, travels, or events.

Theme Specific

Music albums can be on CDs, vinyl records, or digital formats.

Multiple Formats

An album often reflects an artist's current style or messages they want to convey.

Artistic Expression

Iconic albums can influence popular culture and music trends.

Cultural Impact

Collecting albums can provide a glimpse into history through stamps, letters, etc.

Historical Insight

Albums help to categorize and protect collectible or memorable items.

Organizational Purpose

Albums can elicit nostalgia and are used to look back at the past fondly.

Nostalgic Value

 who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea. But this room was my paradise, essentially, and when I came to tour my album, which is called "In My Room," I thought I'd try and tour the room on the road, and that's quite a strange idea,

A one-man musical...

 sharing experiences and the images around the world. I'll kind of quickly go through the album. I was very interested, at that point, getting calls from everybody in the world, to find out more about this idea, a message, about albinism, or perceptions of people in communities about this syndrome, albinism.

Rick Guidotti: From...

 and he's no longer with us, sadly, rest in peace. The definitive portrait of that person, in that moment, is what I strive for every single time out, like when you close your eyes and think of a picture of Jay-Z, I want it to be my picture. So far, so good. Eight album covers for Jay-Z later,

From Aaliyah to Jay-Z:...

 her family drove her all around the countryside and sought to ask strangers if they knew where she could find rock i had an album with pictures of all sorts of archaeological sites all over the world i had one picture of stonehenge and i was walking around saying have you seen

Why War Zones Need...

 I already said the word "sentence." In music, if you've heard a song before, when you hear it, the next note pops into your head already -- you anticipate it. With an album, at the end of a song, the next song pops into your head. It happens all the time, you make predictions.

Jeff Hawkins: How brain...

 these views and all these comments are going on about your project you can turn that attention into influence now some might think influence is best used to sell a product a book or album or an event but what happens when you use that influence to try to create change or

A lesson in education...

 blowing my mind this room is quite small and I'm quite small but there's also people listening it's why it's very nice I'm gonna play a song called hideaway so I've spent the last couple of years making four albums because I just can't I can't help myself

Spectacular, glorious,...

 because that's where the drama is. And when I talked to producers of hit albums, they said, "Oh sure, we have lots of superstars in music. It's just, they don't last very long. It's the outstanding collaborators who enjoy the long careers,

Margaret Heffernan: Why...

 However, when I perform my own music as a solo artist, I tend to gravitate towards more melancholy sounds. A few years ago, I gave my mom the rough mixes of a new album, and she said, "Baby, it's beautiful, but why is it always so sad?"

Can we choose to fall...

 is skyrocketing, as you can tell from the price of opera tickets, by the number of books sold, by the number of books published, the number of musical titles released, the number of new albums and so on. The only grain of truth to this