Ed Droste Quotations

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

If we're as successful as we think we will be, we might do some expansion down the road.

Over the last three or four years I drove every inch of Vegas and we walked into every casino. We even had some deals that went into agreements, but for one reason or another, it wasn't right. But this one was absolutely perfect.

I think history is going to repeat itself. We brought a little of the beach-into-the-casual dining concept and now we're doing the same thing amongst all the marble with our wood floors. We have 25,000 rooms within a couple of blocks of us, so we're right there nestled amongst the big guys.

We're really our own culture, and I think that's going to set us apart from the other purely restaurant connected casino concepts that are emerging. We have a very loyal following; millions go through our stores in a monthly basis. I just don't think they (other restaurant operators) have the culture and the following that we have because of our sports involvement and the Hooters Girls.

It's not inconceivable but our main thought is to keep the eye on the ball here.