Music Quotes

World Record" has a looseness and a spontaneity that's rare in new recordings. It reminds me a little of listening to old 78-r.p.m. records-most early recording artists had just one three-minute shot in front of the microphone, and sometimes things got a little wild, a little free. How do you purposefully cultivate that feeling in the studio?

I especially love the pump organ on "Walkin' on the Road (to the Future)" and "The Wonder Won't Wait"-it adds this wheezing, groaning sound. It's almost as though another person, another set of lungs, is suddenly in the room.

Because the record companies, in their ultimate wisdom, seeing what a great thing digital was, they sold all the places where they made records. Now people want records and they haven't got a facility to make them in, so it takes months and months and months to get vinyl. Vinyl is ultimately much better.

I don't feel connected to the whole vision of the record in the same way-it's got all these characters. The point of view of "Love Earth" and the point of view of "Break the Chain" are so different. It's not the same thing, but it is the same thing.

I play the songs, and we're doing it live, and everything happens, and then we capture it like that. Rick is a genius. It's so easy, because he loves music. You're not gonna find a person who loves music more than Rick. He's dedicated to preserving it.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

Think I'll roll another number for the road.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.