Paste Magazine Quotes

#1. Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now. Please support the cause and lift them up to keep them moving forward.

Shawn Mullins

#2. I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!

Meiko

#3. Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.

Nina Persson

#4. Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.

Derek Webb

#5. It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

Wayne Coyne

#6. A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

William Fitzsimmons

#8. Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Patterson Hood

#9. If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

Doug Stanhope

#10. Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Aristotle.

#11. My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

Duff Goldman

#12. I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Jamaica Kincaid

#13. I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Omar Bongo

#14. I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#15. I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

Paul Theroux

#16. Information is information, not matter or energy.

Norbert Wiener

#17. The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

John Green

#18. The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Harold Pinter

#19. Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.

Jon Foreman

#20. You can't wait around for someone else to make you happy. Make joy in your own heart and go from there.

Ellen C. Maze

#21. Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

Diego Boneta

#22. Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park ... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.

Kenneth Adelman