Aspect Quote by 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

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it…

— John Abercrombie

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.

— Hildur Gudnadottir

“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 don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in…

— Tom Petty

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not…

— Alan Watts

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

— Ahmet Ertegun

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the…

— Coy Bowles

When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21,…

— Ben Gibbard

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

— Flying Lotus

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

— Terri Guillemets

It's a funny thing having a recording be part of your career. It means you can go back and revisit yourself, in a way…

— Samuel Ervin Beam