Mean Quote by David Grubbs

My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an…

— David Grubbs

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him…

— David Grubbs

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

— David Grubbs

The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck…

— David Grubbs

What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more…

— David Grubbs

If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should…

— David Grubbs

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it…

— David Grubbs

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

— David Grubbs

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song…

— David Grubbs

The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at…

— David Grubbs

When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and…

— David Grubbs

As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of…

— David Grubbs