“The compact disc was matter. It could be collected. It made a delicate claw of your hand—a setting for a stone—as you gripped its edges and placed it in its tray.”— Jason Guriel, slate.com
“But what I didn’t realize is that ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,’ in its day, was a huge hit. It was huge. It was like their ‘Uptown Funk.’ Which makes you wonder what was going on in the 1830s.”— Jim Gaffigan, amazon.com
“Shoegaze — named for its players’ tendency to stare down at complex warrens of effects pedals, or stompboxes — was born out of a young British population so numbed by successive Conservative governments that it turned to sonic immolation.”— Finn Cohen, nytimes.com