Vinyl Quotes

• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

  Quentin Tarantino

  House, Albums, Records

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• The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

  Peter Hook

  Texas, Differences, Scary

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• Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

  Jack White

  Taken, Heart, Kids

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  Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

  Neil Young

  Jobs, Home, Pioneers

  "Neil Young Trumpets High-Quality Digital Music, with Steve Jobs' Blessing" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

  Frank Iero

  Fans, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop.

  Pete Rock

  Father, Teaching, Inspiration

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• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Witty, Block

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• I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Stuff, Entertainment

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• A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

  Neil Young

  Fashion, Cds, People

  "Neil Young dismisses vinyl revival as a 'fashion statement'", www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2015.

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• There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

  Beck

  People, Track, Different

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Space, Records, Ceremony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

  Kate Bush

  Lovely, Artistic, Objects

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I think some songs are better on vinyl.

  Brendon Urie

  Song, Thinking

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie on his new album 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.

  Andy Summers

  Arguing, Moments, Music Industry

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

  John Vanderslice

  Block, Thinking, Catching On

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.

  RZA

  Depth, Way, Sample

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• I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Cds, People

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• Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever
  you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's
  good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If
  you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound
  better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the
  day, people want to go to a party.

  John Digweed

  Party, Cds, People

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• 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.

  Conor Oberst

  Believe, Cds, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

  Ken Hensley

  People, Albums, Sides

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• 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.

  Neil Young

  Rip, Want, Digital

  Source: www.theabsolutesound.com

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• Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

  Johnny Mathis

  Blessed, Thank God, Wonderful

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• 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.

  Artist, Technology, Player

  "Steve Jobs In Memoriam: Remembrances and Tributes". www.billboard.com. October 05, 2011.

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• 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

  Friendship, Sound Quality, People

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

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