Liner Notes Quotes

#1. I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way?

Linda Collison

#2. In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'

Pete Hamill

#3. I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

Jonathan Harris

#4. I broke my heart in two
So hard I struck.
What matter? for I know
That out of rock,
Out of a desolate source,
Love leaps upon its course.

William Butler Yeats

#5. I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Charlie Benante

#6. A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

Steve Weinstein

#7. I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

Spencer Krug

#8. His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. And maybe one day I'll be found, and someone will explain to me why I am the way that I am. Or maybe not. After all, some stories aren't meant to be told.

Jenny Lawson

#10. Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.

Confucius

#11. I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

Glenn Kotche

#12. He knew wine and food. He knew how to sense what someone might want in the instant before they knew it themselves. For him there was nothing humiliating or degrading about service. It was his religion.

William Kuhn

#13. Disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.

David Quammen

#14. A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Virginia Postrel

#15. That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.

John Darnielle

#16. He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Terry Pratchett

#17. It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.

Martin Gore

#18. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Eric Hoffer