Beck
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.Collection: Technology
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.Collection: People
I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.Collection: Believe
There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.Collection: Real
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.Collection: Song
Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.Collection: Song
I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.Collection: Song
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.Collection: Thinking
My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.Collection: Generations
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?Collection: Baby
I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.Collection: Mother
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.Collection: Curiosity
I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.Collection: Phones
[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.Collection: Attitude
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.Collection: Years
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.Collection: Years
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.Collection: Thinking
Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.Collection: Media
There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.Collection: Song
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.Collection: Technology
I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.Collection: Remember You
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.Collection: Artist
I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.Collection: Song
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.Collection: Backgrounds
There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.Collection: Song
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?Collection: People
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.Collection: Thinking
When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.Collection: Mean
You can't please everybody, man.Collection: Men