I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the result of this evening’s experiments: astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever. - Arthur Sullivan on the gramophone

…the indie nazis that run Melbourne … - Kevin from Jebediah

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there. - Alan Cox

How many years of my life have I spent waiting for the band to start? - Nicky Jenkins

I want to say that it’s all just a natural and expected part of the evolution of the English language, but then someone goes and spells ‘flavour’ with a ‘-va’ and I figure it’s exactly for times like these that people went and invented pickup trucks with gun racks. - Cameron Rogers

Send more ruthless people. - Lenin

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business. - Terry Pratchett

Nostalgia’s for bastards too tired to think for themselves, so they hide in some mythical golden age where the speed was always top quality and the hitching was easy. - John Hawkes-Reed

All I Want For Christmas Is: Tori Amos’ arms to get so fat that she floats up into the sky like a big balloon and the lack of oxygen makes her die slowly and painfully from suffocation - and that she can do it without warbling about her feelings and emotions and making a gimmick out of it to appeal to depressed middle class teenagers across the globe who know this same feeling of fatty-arm-floaty-death-suffocation … Or a pony would be nice, too. - Miss Alex