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“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

“The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.”

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Author:Blake Judd

“I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.”

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Author:Alex Scally

“It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.”

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Author:Rivers Cuomo

“I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.”

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Author:Tamaryn

“When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.”

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Author:Kieran Hebden

“I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.”

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Author:Mat McNerney

“Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.”

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Author:Mat McNerney

“I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.”

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Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.”

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Author:Beck

“I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.”

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Author:Justin Vernon

“I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.”

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Author:Craig Finn

“I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.”

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Author:Tim Rutili

“Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.”

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Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."”

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Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.”

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Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.”

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Author:Joe Perry

“I don't know what people think in making record is like. But basically, I got a bunch of spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, and the whole band was staying at my house and we had a ball.”

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Author:Chris Isaak

“Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now."”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.”

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Author:Sarah Harmer

“I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.”

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Author:Black Francis

“I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.”

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Author:Arik Roper

“The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.”

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Author:David Gilmour

“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.”

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Author:Joe Louis Walker

“To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.”

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Author:Tracey Thorn

“As long as bands are still out there slaving away in the garage and putting out their own records and just pushing the envelope for how songs should be written or how they should be played, punk will never die.”

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Author:Milo Aukerman

“I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.”

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Author:James Dean Bradfield

“It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things to people. If it keeps getting stolen, then the band has less ability to come to your town and perform. And that is ultimately what all of us want to do.”

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Author:Matt Snell

“It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.”

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Author:Grace Kelly

“I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous bands don't call me, only kids in rock bands. I don't know why, and I don't worry about it. I would worry about it if I wasn't working, if I was unemployed.”

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Author:Gordon Raphael