Dave Van Ronk Quotes

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

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.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

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

My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

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

I didn't have a record player.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that buy records 'cause they listen to every song.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.