“Designed to be heard precisely in the order laid down, it [Anthology of American Folk Music compiled by Harry Smith] anticipated the sort of musical collage that would become perhaps the most widely practiced American art form: the personal mixtape of favorite songs.” MusicMixtapesMixtape Book:Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears Source: Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.” NostalgiaCapturedRecording Music Book:Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears Source: Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears
“I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room.” MagicRebirthVinyl RecordsMusical Favorites Book:Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears Source: Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears