Maren Morris Quotes

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

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

I collect vintage vinyl records.

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.

I was 5 years old when I first broke into my mother's records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the stereo and listened to Nat's music.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.

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.

I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.

If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.

As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.