Art Quote by Butch Vig

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

— Dwight Yoakam

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes…

— Beck

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather…

— Arto Lindsay

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

— Marianne Faithfull

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the…

— Geddy Lee

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

— Kendrick Lamar

Sometimes things get too layered and compressed or there's too many effects and they turn into mush on record. I strive to keep it…

— Wayne Static

My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something,…

— Imogen Heap

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s…

— Neil Young

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

— Tiesto

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

— Sarah Brightman