Peter Buck

“The industry has changed. It's not the same business it was when we started.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I don't look back much.”

“You don't want to be the guy who's 50 and still trying to be 20.”

“I never felt like a rock star. I always felt like a guy in a band.”

“I bought a Rickenbacker 360 thinking it would make me sound like The Byrds. I didn't know you had to be a good player.”

“Songwriting is a muscle. You have to keep it in shape.”

“The day R.E.M. started, that was the day I had to quit my job at the record store.”

“I think the best records are the ones that you can listen to in 20 years and they still sound good.”

“It's the great undiscovered universe of rock and roll.”

“We were four people who were very different, but we had this one thing in common, which was that we were really serious about what we did.”

“We never wanted to be the biggest band in the world. We just wanted to be a good band.”

“The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”