Ryan Adams Quotes

My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

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

I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

the parson, vicar, or curate, and parishioners of every parish within this realm, shall in their churches and chapels keep one book or register, wherein they shall write the day and year of every wedding, christening, and burial made within their parish for their time, and so every man succeeding them likewise; and also therein shall write every person's name that shall be so wedded, christened, and buried. And for the safe keeping of the same book, the parish shall be bound to provide of their common charges one sure coffer, with two locks and keys, whereof the one to remain with the parson, vicar, or curate, and the other with the wardens of every parish church or chapel, wherein the said book shall be laid up

I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

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

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

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

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

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.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?