One quote from each issue of Tape Op — numbered by issue.
1. "Keep that spontaneity there at all costs." -Fred Cornog (East River Pipe)
2. "If I notice it then I gotta work on it." -Janet Weiss (Quasi/Sleater-Kinney)
3. "How many records have been recorded on an ADAT that you and I like?" -Steve Fisk
4. "I'm a person who really likes clarity." -Hillary Johnson
5. "The problem was the sound they insisted on recording." -Brian McTear
6. "I don't want it to sound studio slick." -Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices)
7. "Not everyone is going to like, understand or care about what you've recorded." -Curtis Settino
8. "I don't really like doing things one at a time." -Don Zientara
9. "Distortion is usually your friend." -Rob Schnapf
10. "I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams." -Steve Albini
11. "I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else." -DJ Shadow
12. "It's taken us six records to stop hating the studio." -Guy Picciotto (Fugazi)
13. "I try to think of the recording process as another band member." -Joey Burns (Calexico)
14. "Imagine what it was like recording Sinatra or James Brown." -Joe Chiccarelli
15. "We don't have any computers!" -Liam Watson (Toe Rag Studio)
16. "I couldn't get arrested in the '80s to mix anything." Tchad Blake
17. "It doesn't take a genius to hit play and record." -Dave Fridmann
18. "We had to stop recording whenever a plane flew over." -Phill Brown
19. "I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way." -Jim Dickinson
20. "It was the last record that I did that I'm most happy with." -Roger Moutenot
21. "That's the beauty of recording, that there is no right way." -John Fischbach
22. "You can't just buy an analog recorder and expect it to sound good." -Sean Slade
23. "I'll definitely do anything if it seems worth trying." -John McEntire
24. "We used a lot of bands as guinea pigs before we started." -Vern Rumsey (Unwound)