"The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them."

-- El-P

#Team Quotes #Independent Quotes #Artist Quotes

“A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.”
“As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.”

Source : "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.
“Television is a vast wasteland.”
“I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around.”
“Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.”

Source : Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.”
“Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.”

Source : FaceBook post by Janina Gavankar from Sep 29, 2013
“Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.”

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