"Musicians deserve respect. They’re the ones strumming the guitars, hammering the drums, and singing their stories. And I don’t think that stuffy screeds against bands, decimal point ratings on albums, or sterile opinions written in the third person are the best ways to advance respect in music." -- Matt Wendus, from http://ripfork.com/about/

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
-- Elvis Costello, in an interview by Timothy White entitled "A Man out of Time Beats the Clock." Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52.