Paul's Boutique Quotes

“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

“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