Mike D Quotes
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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
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London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.
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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
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It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
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We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.