Ian Christe quotes
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“That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.”
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“It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The dream book is always the next book.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.”
-- Ian ChristeSource : Source: pitchfork.com