Band Quote by David Longstreth

It's helpful to just hear things through friends' ears, people who know you well. I guess when I started Dirty Projectors, when I was,…

— David Longstreth

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

— David Longstreth

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to…

— Cory Arcangel

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between…

— Camille Paglia

We tend to be talking to fabricators in the film and special effects or automotive customisation worlds. That having been said, I'm sure as…

— Patricia Piccinini

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

— Elton John

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on…

— Scott Adsit

Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.

— James Hetfield

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the…

— Brian Eno

I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour…

— Kat Graham

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

— Anne Rice

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you…

— Panda Bear