Mercury Rev Quotes

On the first record, there was bass, drums, guitar, noises and machinery, just everyone playing their thing, that kind of jazz. The songs were made without anybody telling anybody else what to do. What's that called? Improv. That's always been our bag. Maybe we're using more trad jazz instruments in our improv now, like trombones, which makes it sound more like famous jazz people. When I say jazz, it's more like jizz. Jizz-fission, instead of jazz fusion."
David "Shady" Baker

"These are basic songs though. We just want the songs to be interesting to listen to. It's like somebody with one leg, saying 'who do you hop all the time why don't you just run? Wouldn't it be interesting to just run? I think you can only hop'. You can make too much effort doing something that is straightforward."
David "Shady" Baker