Quotes by Drums of the Authors - Page 2

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
Mike D / Drums
Beholden
Record
Point
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On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.
Mike D / Drums
Communication
Ill
Check
Ok
Split
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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
Mike D / Drums
Comfortable
Heard
Thousand
Genuinely
Thousand Times
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We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.
Mike D / Drums
Cement
Ozone
Fix
Radically
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When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.
Mike D / Drums
Adam
Older Brother
Biological
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
Mike D / Drums
Brilliant
Japan
Vinyl
Rare
Walk
Store
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Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.
Mike D / Drums
Available
Business Music People
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I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.
Mike D / Drums
Wine
Music Me Know
Far-Fetched
Opened
Piece
Specific
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That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.
Mike D / Drums
Geeks
Soundtrack
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
Mike D / Drums
Music People Way
Aware
Brothers
Older Brothers
Rural
Suburban
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At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.
Mike D / Drums
Zero
Bike
Equipment
Ground Zero
Proximity
Backpack
Close
Flee
Grab
Immediate
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I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
Mike D / Drums
Idolized
Bands
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I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
Mike D / Drums
East Village
Village
Time Remember First Time
Park
Square
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
Mike D / Drums
Amazing Thing
Begun
Discover
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The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.
Mike D / Drums
Bottom
Bottom Line
Funk
Applied
Gordon
Line
Versed
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Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.
Mike D / Drums
Daft
Interesting
Little Bit
Bit
Mr
Group
Uncle
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
Mike D / Drums
Resistance
Stressful
Things Happen
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New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
Mike D / Drums
American Cities
Cities
Ethnic
Neighborhoods
Segregated
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I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.
Mike D / Drums
Closest
Older Brother
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Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.
Mike D / Drums
Luxury
Work Space Home
Bath
Master
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.
Mike D / Drums
Hip Hop
Punk
Punk Rock
Wave
Music Me New
Dub
Listened
Other Kids
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I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
Sunny Murray / Drums
Able
Beats
Differences
Manipulate
Manipulation
Percussion
Interpret
Quick
Rapid
Slow
Sharp
Third
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I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
Mike D / Drums
Grown Man
Showing Up
Life Time Man
Backpack
Bag
Grown
Studio
Showing
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
Mike D / Drums
Wine
Brings
Context
Good Writer
Jay
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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
Mike D / Drums
Anomaly
Immediately
Stayed
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Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
Mike D / Drums
Visual
Each Time
Faced
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I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.
Mike D / Drums
Friends
Home
Getting Older
Peers
Reflection
Seems
Time Reflection Me
Among
Getting
Times
Older
Spent
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
Mike D / Drums
Paint
Planned
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I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.
Mike D / Drums
Romantic
Disco
Little Bit
Lost
Magic
Murphy
Bit
James
Necessarily
Same Thing
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
Mike D / Drums
Arrogance
Band
Certain
Comfortable
Enough
Gang
Mentality
Bad
Bad Thing
Idea
Certain Degree
First
Degree
Forward
Generally
Push
Somehow
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To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
Mike D / Drums
Band
Criteria
Rap Music
Roots
Type
Music Use Me
Music Me Nothing
Dj
Group
Record
Supply
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My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.
Mike D / Drums
Freak
Separating
Dealers
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Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
Mike D / Drums
Romantic
Chamber
Influence
Little Bit
Mixing
Music Where People
Big Influence
Central
Desk
Dub
Echo
Instrument
Production
Terms
So Many People
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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
Mike D / Drums
Realizing
Subway
Amazingly
Positive Thing
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I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
Mike D / Drums
Brain
Dialogue
Spectrum
Vice Versa
Art Music Your
Visual
Art Forms
Forms
Fill
Versa
Vice
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We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.
Mike D / Drums
Daily Experience
Downtown
Events
Felt
Manhattan
New Yorkers
Proximity
September
September 11th
Became
Close
Close Proximity
Daily
Island
Saw
Impacted
Terms
Wake
Ways
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I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
Mike D / Drums
Dependent
Force
Funky
Hardcore
Our Lives
Particular
Seeing
Threat
Three
Treacherous
Totally
Admit
Time More Three
Club
Lounge
Minor
Rock
Necessary
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Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.
Mike D / Drums
Funny
Criticism
Guides
Practice
Subjective
Wine
Useful
Funny Thing
Purely
React
Realm
Similar
Ultimately
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London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.
Mike D / Drums
Jerk
London
Teach
Good Myself Man
Image
Pick
Straighten
Tip
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
Mike D / Drums
Able
Cringe
Disrespect
Far Away
Involving
Moments
Privilege
Records
Violence
Actually
Away
Far
In The Past
Making
Obviously
Reflect
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Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.
Mike D / Drums
Cool
Audience
Hopefully
Hotel
Last Night
Night
Boy
Autograph
Backstage
Happier
Saw
Instead
Last
Tapes
They Say
Thinks
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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
Mike D / Drums
New York
Clash
England
Gang
Growing Up
Remember
Seeing
Started
Me Remember Bad
Me Remember New
Bands
Show
Brains
Costello
Elvis
Getting
Local
Louder
Plaza
York
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Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs, supporting each other. That was a profound influence. Also, hip-hop, to me, represents limitless possibility. Hip-hop is always evolving. People say, "Oh, it's a very commercial thing, it's too R&B." But in six months, a record is gonna come out that will completely change that.
Mike D / Drums
Artist
People
Profound
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