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To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.

— Joe Nichols

I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.

— Lauren Oliver

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

— Mel Torme

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

— Annie Lennox

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.

— Sebastian Faulks

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

— Estelle

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

— John Deacon

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

— Solange Knowles

✗Opposing Perspectives

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

— Peter Hammill

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

— John Oates