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You don’t want everything [that is] in the desktop app. If you want that kind of nonsense go get on Android.
Merlin Mann on well-crafted iOS apps, 34:10 mark of Back to Work 54: Freemium Mason on 5by5
It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in (your heart) and what goes on in (your head).
Dave Grohl, acceptance speech for Best Rock Performance at the 2012 Grammys
This award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
Dave Grohl, acceptance speech for Best Rock Performance at the 2012 Grammys
We accused each other of betrayal and thievery and lies and treachery. And it was all true. We were all guilty. Dig up the past, and it’s going to get all over everybody. And, man, do we have a past…
David Lee Roth on Van Halen’s turbulent past, “When David Lee Roth talks, it’s ‘A Different Kind of Truth’”, Los Angeles Times interview
Oh, that’s lucky because I have this TARDIS here that should make it nice and easy for me to pop in for exactly 20 minutes and then be back in time to pick my daughter up from school.
Merlin Mann on the hidden costs of accepting low-paying speaking engagements, Back to Work 52: Walk the Coastline, Bitches on 5by5
How do you know when you hit rock bottom? I mean, is there like a sound?
Merlin Mann on some of the asinine things he saw at MacWorld|iWorld, Back to Work 52: Walk the Coastline, Bitches on 5by5

You people have awful prices for CDs. $35 for a f*cking CD?! That’s awful. Why is anyone going to buy any music at that kind of prices? When you see stuff like that, burn the record store down and steal the sh*t. That’s what I think you should do.

And if you see any of my CDs for that price, and you can steal the sh*t online? Do it! I’d rather be heard than paid.

Henry Rollins on music prices, Provoked: Live in Melbourne
Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
Any other musicians out there notice that ever since they shut down MegaUpload, the money has just been POURING in?
Jonathan Coulton on Twitter
Now I have the reward of listening to the drum parts I have performed for this album, and recognizing with quiet satisfaction that I am working at a whole new level of both funky, dirty, greasy groove and fancy show-off technique—a combination I have been seeking my entire drumming life.
Neil Peart, “At the Gate of the Year”, a blog post documenting (among other things) his new approach to composing drum parts for the upcoming Rush album Clockwork Angels
He called me ‘Dr. No’ because… as soon as he would open his mouth, ‘No’ would come out of mine.
James Hetfield, on working with Bob Rock on The Black Album, In the Studio interview with Redbeard
Dimebag said there would be no Pantera if it wasn’t for King’s X. We were one of his favourite bands.
King’s X’s Doug Pinnick, Planet Mosh interview
All of a sudden I realized I had permission to just be an artist and throw this stuff out there and let it go and let it be what it is. It doesn’t define who I am; it’s just a moment. And it’s a real moment.
King’s X’s Ty Tabor, Harmony Central interview
King’s X is one of my favorites. They should have been as big as U2, but life is not fair, but they were that groundbreaking.
Billy Sheehan on being asked what groups from the late ’80s to early ’90s moved him most, The Sun News | Kicks! interview