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Mar 9 2010
"Yeah, I’m trying to get to a new thing, I work hard at it, really, it’s not about cut and paste, it’s not about sounding post-modern, that’s not the point. I don’t care about what it refers to. It’s like, just listen to the music. Does it turn you on? Do you hate it? I just want to get to the basic human reaction, not the preconceived ideas, not the prejudices, not the categories, not placing the music on a linear time line and writing it off that way. Which is difficult now. We’ve seen so much, done so much and heard so much. You know, it’s really hard to do something new. I think you can just keep playing the same thing over and over, and rock’n’roll will never die, people will always like electric guitars, people need electric guitars. And on the other side of the coin you can start playing techno and electronic music and that is a sound that doesn’t have anything to do with 1965, but it’s limited to a certain amount of sound. I don’t want to be limited. I want to be able to use any musical texture that makes sense and makes the song interesting."
— Beck
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Mar 2 2010
"The record industry suing file sharers is like the railroad industry trying to shoot down airplanes."
— Kenn Waagner, digital guru for Wilco
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Feb 26 2010
"Piracy? The biggest pirates have been the record companies. The people running the record labels are lawyers and accountants, and they could be selling Brillo pads for all they care. It’s not about the art at all. So when people download a song, if it’s a good song, people want the artist. People worship Eric Clapton or Ray Charles. What they do is bigger than any song. Downloading music gives people a chance to be exposed to an artist, not just a Brillo-pad manufacturer."
— Chuck D of the Beastie Boys
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Feb 21 2010
"The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions concerning it."
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Sep 28 2009
» twitter.com/shitmattrsays
A twitter account one of my roommates made dedicated to things my other roommate says, in the vein of shitmydadsays. |
Sep 15 2009
"We’ll stop calling them record companies and start thinking of them as music companies."
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Sep 12 2009
"This is what’s wrong with the world. Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody ‘What’s the story on that?’ and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That’s fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now."
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Sep 8 2009
"3) Listening to an album all the way through
The single is one of the unlikely beneficiaries of the internet – a development which can be looked at in two ways. There’s no longer any need to endure eight tracks of filler for a couple of decent tunes, but will “album albums” like Radiohead’s Amnesiac get the widespread hearing they deserve?"
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