Chuck D Quotes

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.

I like to support local record stores.

The best music out there isn't on the radio.

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

When I was in my 20s, I started frequenting record stores, and there was one in particular called Tropicalia in Furs in New York City. It's closed now, but it was one of those magical places where you would walk in, and the owner would start playing you records and not let you leave. It was such an education.

Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.

I love everything from soul to electronica and classic rock to weird rock. I'm a real cratedigger, so wherever I go, I search out a vinyl shop to find some unburied treasure - records by under-the-radar artistes.

I always had these big records with people who were relatively unknown.

I remember the first 45 record I bought. It was called 'A Dog a Donut'; it was a breakbeat. Actually, I think I bought two at one time, and the other one was 'Dance to the Drummer's Beat.' Those are breakbeats. I paid a dollar for it, for each one. Your average producer or DJ would know who came out with those.

I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know about, to meet someone more passionate than you are, and to feel at home in a place you may never have been to before. I'm convinced they will never lose their place - Long may they rule.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.