Air Quote by John Abercrombie

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

— Eric Dolphy

“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

With music, when you finish a record, you are entwined with it throughout your existence in a way which is both interesting and challenging…

— Adrianne Lenker

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery…

— Andrew Bird

It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to…

— Dimebag Darrell

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

— Linda Ronstadt

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening,…

— Gord Downie

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

— David Sanborn

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never…

— Loudon Wainwright III

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half…

— Keren Ann

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...

— Pat Metheny