Record Stores Quotes - Page 2

• Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of glass fell on top of this girl. And the girl's throat was slit. She just got slit. And I remember there was blood everywhere. Oh God, so much blood. And she grabbed her throat and was bleeding and everyone just ignored her. Why? Because I was there and they wanted to grab at me and get my autograph. I wonder whatever happened to that girl.

  Michael Jackson

  Girl, Kids, Glasses

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• Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

  Steve Earle

  Music, Thinking, People

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• However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Regret, Past

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

  will.i.am

  Games, Records, Selling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Records, Classic

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• As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.

  Amos Lee

  Hate, Knowing, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

  Amos Lee

  Listening, Records, Sides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

  Julianne Hough

  Thinking, Cds, Generations

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

  Queen Latifah

  Sound Quality, Albums, Records

  "Sweet sounds at the Sugar Water festival". Interview with Terry Wynn II, www.today.com. July 18, 2005.

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• I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

  Avey Tare

  Trying, Unemployment, Records

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.

  Chuck D

  Cutting, Artist, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, New York, Guitar

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Rocks, Play

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• My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

  Sarah Harmer

  Bars, Band, Records

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

  DJ Spooky

  Trying, One Day, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.

  Paul Weller

  Years, Names, Roots

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Japan, Different

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

  Patrick Stump

  Nerd, Records, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

  Michael Stipe

  Horse, New York, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

  Iggy Pop

  Coffee, Light, Iguanas

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Kids, Trying

  "Rocker With a Soft Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Kids, Choices, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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