Neal Schon Quotes

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

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

I didn't have a record player.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

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

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

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

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

I collect vintage vinyl records.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

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

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.

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.

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.

It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.