• "...In a blind listening test, you'd be hard pressed to pick this out as the work of a soon to be incarcerated cult leader/mass murderer." -- Aquarius Records review of Charles Manson's Sings on ESP-Disk

• "The key for our survival is touring bands. Bands that don't tour don't sell records. So, what I've learned is to go with youth. Young bands don't mind hitting the road as much and don't mind sleeping on floors. Also, the more they tour the better they get ." Syd Butler, Frenchkiss Records at CMJ.com

• "I can't even begin to imagine the technical terms I would need to make a joke about the level of nerd that loves this band -- and I'm somewhat of a nerd myself. Their fanbase is way beyond taped-up glasses. The nerds at Flaming Lips shows are so nerd that they've come full circle and become jocks." -- A zero-rating review of the Flaming Lips' At War With the Mystics by Vice Magazine.

• "Music was better when we were kids ... When we were young we had tapes, and you listened to every track. You didn't fast forward in case you overshot. And songs you didn't like turned out to be your favourites, because the album became a person. It grew on you. Now, if kids don't like the first few bars, they're gone. You've got to grab them. I tell you what the problem is - it's downloading." -- Danger Mouse in an interview with The Telegraph