I woke up with a theme from the Orb stuck in my head, but it was stripped of all its menacing sexual overtones.

I think I've found a use for Villalobos.

'I believe what is most worth telling is always what cannot be told.'

'Like money into the bag, should one be able to sweep truth into the head?'

On the second quintet records Davis and Shorter often sound like people practicing (stretching, warming up, playing, fooling around, exploring, testing, trying, preparing) - alone or off to the side in a room of others - quieter, muted, quick, casual, alone.

'popular culture (inasmuch as it could be related to conceptual art)'

'glaucoma' / 'glock on ya'

'It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green.'

'Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track’s already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they’re not already in there. Then I try to see if there’s a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about. If there isn’t, I try to see if I can analogize it, break it down, flip it another way. If that can’t be done, the best thing I can do is pretty much out-rap the guy. And when I say out-rap the guy - say, if he uses ten syllables in a line, I’m going to use fifteen. If he uses fifteen, I’m going to use twenty, twenty-five. If he’s rhyming two or three words within two bars, I’m going to rhyme four or five words in two bars. I’m going to out-skill you.' - Bun B