Dan LeRoy > Quotes

“North Shore is about this guy who's a graphic design student in Arizona and can only surf in a wave tank, but he's good enough to win a trip to Hawaii to surf the North Shore. When he gets there everybody makes fun of the kid from Arizona, like, why are you here? The kid asks this surfer, “What kind of board is that?” and the guy says, “A longboard. You'll never be able to ride one because you don't understand the history of surfing.” The kid from Arizona looks at it and says, “Well, that logo could use some work.” That was Dave's favorite line in the movie.”
― Dan LeRoy, For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique

“The Beasties’ TV interlocutor tried to engage them on the subject of flag-burning, to which Adam Horovitz responded deadpan, while staring into the sky, “Nice flag! Flags are cool. I like flags.”
― Dan LeRoy, For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique

“After months of incubation in their thousand petri dishes, the songs that would comprise Paul’s Boutique reached maturity in surprisingly short order.”
― Dan LeRoy, The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique

“According to Russell Simmons, producer Eric B once claimed he could have created fifteen albums with the ideas from Paul’s Boutique. Even the late Miles Davis reportedly once said he never tired of the record.”
― Dan LeRoy, The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique

“Nostalgia is a longing for home,” Svedana Boym writes, “that no longer exists or has never existed.” In the 20th century, that longing, she adds, quoting historians Jean Starobinski and Michael Roth, had “shrunk to the longing for one’s childhood.”
― Dan LeRoy, The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique