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Quotes About Vinyl

I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
~ Savion Glover
Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl.
~ Romy Madley Croft
I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
~ Maren Morris
Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs.
~ Troy Carter
I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.
~ Neil Sedaka
Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl.
~ Jim James
Moving to L.A., I got really into hip-hop and trap music and basically a lot of the sounds you would maybe normally see in a festival, but for whatever reason, I was so involved in vinyl and house at the time, I didn't even know that I liked trap.
~ Mija
I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.
~ Michiel Huisman
My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.
~ Orianthi
My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.
~ Tom Walker
One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I grew up with vinyl records and remember the pleasure and the kind of buzz that I got from buying a beautiful vinyl record with the sleeve and the lyrics - all that kind of tactile experience that you could get from an old vinyl record.
~ Steven Wilson
I'm into 'Girls.' I'm into 'Vinyl,' a little bit.
~ Mischa Barton
There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons very early on.
~ Julie Payette
My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.
~ Hank Williams III
I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds so much better.
~ Steve Miller
When I made my first record, I was very naive, and I didn't know much about production, and I had a very basic amount of equipment, and I was just digging through vinyl for samples in a very old-fashioned way. It was very loop-based and very cut and paste, and that's the way I started out.
~ Bonobo
Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.
~ Lori Lansens
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
~ Jack White
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
~ Mark Hoppus
My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.
~ Rokia Traore
Oh, here. Here's the record player." Barney lifted a light-blue and white case from one of the eaves. She set it on a trunk and unlatched the lid. "Ever see one of these?" She held up a small plastic disklike thing. Cara and Allie both shook their heads. "This is an insert that you'd put inside one of the forty-five singles so they'd play.
~ Unknown
Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.
~ Melina Marchetta