“I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.” PassionBehindsMinutesMusic IsSaturatedMicrowaves Author:Young Jeezy
“Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.” KnowsWantProblemArtistKnownHeardMinutesMusic IsDefinitionsIgnorantContractsMusic BusinessArtistry Author:Chuck D
“If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.” IfsLongThreePiecesMinutesRocksMusic Is Author:Robert Ashley
“I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldI CanRecordsMinutesMusic IsPicksSacredAccessBlockBizarreCatchingFlipNeedlesVinylCatching On Author:John Vanderslice
“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.” WorldFeelsPersonsIdeasDifferentHappensTogetherMinutesMusic IsEightHearingThings HappenNarrativeAmbientAmbient Music Author:Missy Mazzoli
“And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.” KnowsKindCoursesSidesMinutesIndustryTasteMusic IsHotBoth SidesOne Minute Author:Mark Ronson
“People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.” PeopleWantFeelsAttentionToo MuchMinutesMusic IsAttention Span Author:Phil Elvrum
“A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.” MenSelfWaitingPayMinutesMusic IsLet MeTemptationObservationChainsSelf Observation Author:J. Cole