Politics Quote by Donnie Eichar

“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute. After purchasing…

— Donnie Eichar

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

— DJ Premier

“They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded…

— Lester Bangs

I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so…

— Yannis Philippakis

“To return from my digression: tape like this, however, is very difficult to fake convincingly, and we were assured by the experts who examined…

— Margaret Atwood

The record business has been so unpleasant and so bad for so long.

— Steve Miller

The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

— Jeff Barry

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys…

— El-P

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see…

— Shirley Manson

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was always concerned with making cool-sounding rock records.

— A.C. Newman