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

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!.

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.

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

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.

I wouldn’t buy somebody’s album on a dare if they called him a musician’s musician. I don’t write to be a writer’s writer. I don’t want to be like the little-magazine writer.

I don’t think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I’mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I’m still gonna see a check.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I’ve always had to manage both. I couldn’t get a record deal. It wasn’t by choice – I couldn’t get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.

Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.