Carl Wilson Quotes

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something that I really don't think is that great.