Lee Mack Quotes

The truth is I got rid of 100% of my vinyl in the '90s. All the vinyl I have is re-bought.

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

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!

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

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

I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls.

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.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

I have been a fan of the Beastie Boys ever since I can remember. I have a ton of their music on my iPod and even still have a t-shirt from a show I saw when I was a kid.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.

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

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

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

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.

'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.

I miss independent record stores very much.

Every single record I have is a fossil.