Quotes About Vinyl

When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What

Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a family friend: Emmylou Harris' 'Roses In The Snow.' It was so incredible. This record, to this day, is the favorite album of my life.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

a record has the human touch embedded in the grooves, the stamp of someone who once believed in it.

Any music fan could get to know a song on a favorite 45, a bigger fan might risk playing the B-side.

I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.

Tyler refused to listen to CDs, insisting that real vinyl records were the only way to go. Blair worried her brother was turning into a loser.

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Zeppelin vinyl is quite revered in audiophile circles.

When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

While she organized the albums in the cabinet beneath the hi-fi, she placed the James Chance and the Contortions album Buy on the phonograph and cued up the fifth song, which she remembered her parents often playing before they would all head out into the world to create some new form of chaos.