“If I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.”

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it’s hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to your music.

I’m delighted about the track’s success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is,

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates.

I don’t think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

There is a certain grandeur.

We realized that, Oh my God, we’re actually playing in THE Kremlin!.

The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility.

The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album,

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement.

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’m very specific about scripts that I like. I don’t have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don’t have a chart that I’m following or anything like that. I’m very much playing it by ear.

When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.