Medleyville

* "We worked hard. When we're all granddads, and dead and buried, those records will still be around. That's the only legacy we have." -- Former Superdrag frontman John Davis

* "There's the business side of the music business, then there's the artistic side. And the thing is, I can look back and regardless of the business things that could have happened better for me . . . I'm never embarrassed by [my previous work]." -- Dwight Twilley

* "He was kind of a one-take guy. We did do a couple of comps, but I particularly remember him doing a bunch of takes, and then just saying, 'That one's the one.' " -- Producer/mixer/engineer Ed Stasium on working with Mick Jagger

* "You don't have to pay Barnes and Noble $1,500 each to carry your book. There's no $100,000 video of yourself reading your book. Traveling, you're just by yourself. You don't have to rent a tour bus." -- Semisonic drummer Jacob Slichter, author of So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life

* "I think there's a danger that people can get tired of you, but it's going to happen more so if you're playing the same songs around the world for a few years. We're giving people new stuff every year. As a fan of music and of bands myself, a lot of the time I wished that bands had moved on and got their act together and made more records. We're just doing it the way we think it should be done.” -- Bill Ryder-Jones of The Coral

* "Here's a funny anecdotal thing -- throughout ["Born Too Late"], Scott [Blasey] names [important people] from history. When he gets to the line "Jerry, all the joy and love you bring/I was born to sing," people often had asked if he was singing about Jerry Lewis, [not Jerry Garcia]." -- Clarks guitarist Rob James

-- Compiled by Chris M. Junior