Kevin Shields Quotes
As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.
Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.
I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.
Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.
I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.
We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.
I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.
I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.
Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.
The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.
When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.
I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages.
Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.
The technical reason why remastering is valuable is because, up to around the late 90s, there was this endpoint called zero, and you couldn't get louder than zero.
