“For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there'...” — Anthony Fantano Quote

“For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California musician Ariel Pink's music. It's impossible to separate 'Round and Round' from the anachronism, and there's no loving one without loving the other.”

“A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.”

“Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times and Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983' covers a short chunk of time in Nigeria's musical culture - one that might have lasted longer had the label spearheading the movement at the time, Phonodisk, not been so financially mismanaged.”

“A lot of R&B artists have gotten away from being artists and are just chasing after the next hot producer and it all starts to sound the same.”

“What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians aren't tribunes of the people, they are hucksters. They aren't bitter enemies of the Western system; they are con artists who seek to profit from it.”

“Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.”