Gone Quote by Jim Dickinson

“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

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

— Bill Laswell

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There's the…

— Henry Mancini

If you listen to 'Electric,' 'Entourage,' and 'Been With A Star,' all those records are records that I dug into the crates for to…

— Omarion

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks…

— Tom Jenkinson

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in…

— Pantha du Prince

A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at…

— Will Oldham

The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But,…

— Peggy Lee

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes…

— Zooey Deschanel

I'd like the records to be remembered just for the music.

— Pat Smear

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it.…

— Ariel Pink

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel