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Quotes About Music

To me, there's a lot more bottom and 'dirt' with vinyl. When I say dirt, it's good dirt. You need that raw sound in the clubs. To me, a CD is too clean.
~ Little Louie Vega
Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
~ Om Malik
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
~ Kaskade
People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.
~ Laura Marling
I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
~ Caitlin Rose
Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.
~ Jeff Ament
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
~ John Lydon
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
~ Conor Oberst
Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection and exposed me to some amazing artists.
~ Reid Scott
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
~ Patrick Fugit
If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.
~ Grandmaster Flash
I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
~ Jason Molina
I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.
~ Jamie xx
I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.
~ Jose James
I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.
~ Dierks Bentley
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl.
~ Daveed Diggs
As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
~ Johnny Mathis
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
~ Jack Antonoff
My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.
~ Brian Tyree Henry
When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.
~ Kurt Vile
I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.
~ Rakim
The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
~ Olly Murs