There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.

- Bruce Pavitt

The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about havi…

- Bruce Pavitt

I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles Peterson,…

- Bruce Pavitt

I can fully understand [that] artists want to be able to pay their bills. As a fan of art, and art as a way to shift dialogue and address cultural is…

- Bruce Pavitt

I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the …

- Bruce Pavitt

Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk sc…

- Bruce Pavitt

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

- Bruce Pavitt

People are hard-wired for tribal identity.

- Bruce Pavitt

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

- Bruce Pavitt