Artifacts Quote by Will Oldham

When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that when you're…

— Will Oldham

I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When…

— Will Oldham

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing.…

— Steve Earle

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what…

— Chad Smith

“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

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax,…

— Ry Cooder

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

— John McLaughlin

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

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

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and…

— Jeff Mangum

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them…

— Ry Cooder