“Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.”

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn’t thought of using a sound or a sample.

The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered.

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.

I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead.

I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.

I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.