Mark Kozelek Quotes

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most: Kendrick Lamar.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.