Record Manipulation Quotes

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

We'd take records you'd never hear in clubs and make them into club tracks. We were doing B-sides on records that had nothing to do with the songs, and calling them Masters at Work dubs.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.