It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
BeckWhen you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
BeckWhether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.
BeckFor the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.
Beck