Marlon Wayans Quotes

I love good, loud speakers.

I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Let there be bass.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I didn't have a record player.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I need to be able to rock out.

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.