Music Restrictions Quotes

The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or less impossible to record music in prison, and the only music I could record was electronic music, when I was allowed to have a synthesizer for a few months in 1994 or 1995 and in 1998.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.