“They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record.”

Lester Bangs

Lester Bangs - “They're events you remember all your...” 1

Similar quotes

“[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.”

Regina Spektor
Read more

“Having an honest relationship with time is no simple task. First, you have to open up to the possibility that time is your friend, there to help you, and that recording future plans in whatever way you see fit isn't a burden but rather something that strengthens your pursuit of your dreams.”

Lanna Nakone
Read more

“Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.”

Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Read more

“Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.”

Toba Beta
Read more

“Life is so groovy when your record is hot.”

Ray Davies
Read more