Michael Azerrad Quotes

• Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

  Michael Azerrad

  Albums, Wonderful

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• El truco de Bon Jovi consiste en utilizar acordes de heavy metal y seguir sonando absolutamente seguros. El rock & roll solía ser rebelión disfrazada de comercialismo; ahora gran parte de él es comercialismo disfrazado de rebelión.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Sound, Use

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

  Michael Azerrad

  Stars, Rocks, Hitting

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

  Michael Azerrad

  Pensamiento, Habilidades, Personas

  "TALK: Michael Azerrad". Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

  Michael Azerrad

  People, Musician, Knows

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• I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

  Michael Azerrad

  Home, Writing, Hands

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• Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Generations

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

  Michael Azerrad

  Car, Ferrari, Labels

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• Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

  Michael Azerrad

  Giving, Rolling, Dollars

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• A muchos aficionados a la música les siguen interesando las perspectivas perspicaces sobre la música, quizá incluso más que nunca, ya que todo el mundo necesita ayuda para dar sentido a la increíble variedad de sonidos que han surgido a raíz de la revolución de Internet. Hay mucho espacio para voces únicas y cualificadas que puedan ofrecer buenas lecturas.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Sprung Up, Voice

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• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Years, People

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

  Michael Azerrad

  Facts, Glamour

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• There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

  Michael Azerrad

  People, Band, Chins

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• El sonido de Nine Inch Nails está dominado por sintetizadores estridentes y voces sardónicas y chillonas.

  Michael Azerrad

  Sound, Nails, Nine

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• I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Musician, Stories, Bunch

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

  Michael Azerrad

  Creer, Significar, Pensar

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• I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

  Michael Azerrad

  Band, Theory, Enigmatic

  Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com.

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• As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

  Michael Azerrad

  Media, Games, Soup

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• I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

  Michael Azerrad

  Book, People, Musician

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Powerful, Stupid, Past

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. The equation was simple: If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. It was like songwriting; you just do it. You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• Cuando escribes, sólo eres un cerebro y unos dedos, pero cuando tocas la batería, involucras las cuatro extremidades, oyes cosas y conviertes tus ideas en movimientos físicos, recibes la respuesta física de las cosas que tocas... es genial. Es un contraste muy agradable con la escritura.

  Michael Azerrad

  Nice, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com.

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• People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Ethos, People

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Pensamiento, Gente, Hecho

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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