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Oct 21 2010
"“I’ve always felt a little distant from American culture,” Beck admitted. “Because, speaking in broad terms, things that truly capture the American ideal are usually pretty one dimensional. I don’t want to say ‘lowest common denominator’ because I’m not snooty about it, but there’s not much room for ambiguity. You’re really only allowed to be one thing here, so when I came out it was, ‘You are the slacker, that’s your thing.’ That’s great, but can’t I be a couple of other things? And I think if you want to achieve true success here you have to say, ‘OK, that’s all I am.’ You have to be that cartoon forever.”"
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Jun 23 2010
"I wasn’t sure if they were an army, a gang, or a specialized task force of geological engineers. Whatever they were, when this came out, I wanted to enlist."
— Beck, on DEVO
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Apr 10 2010
rufustfirefly:
“I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.”
- Stephen Colbert
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Mar 23 2010
"It’s not a war between the mainstream and underground to me anymore. It’s about polluting the mainstream, or hacking into it."
— M.I.A.
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Mar 13 2010
"Ninety percent of all labels, managers, and lawyers involved with music do more harm than good. The only thing you can control is music you make in your bedroom."
— Win Butler of Arcade Fire
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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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