Jamie xx Quotes

When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.

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

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.

I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.

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

I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.

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

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.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

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

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

I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

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.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

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

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!

I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the bins.

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.

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

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