Latest Michael Azerrad Quotes from Interviews

• Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Generations

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

  Michael Azerrad

  Book, People, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Musician, Stories, Bunch

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

  Michael Azerrad

  Stars, Rocks, Hitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.

  Michael Azerrad

  Writing, Drug, Complicated

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Thinking, People, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Ethos, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

  Michael Azerrad

  People, Unity, Information

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along.

  Michael Azerrad

  Mean, Trying, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

  Michael Azerrad

  Law, Interviews

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

  Michael Azerrad

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com