Madlib Quotes

I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender bullet guitar.

I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.

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

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.

Possessing best musical equipment has always been my craze.

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.

We do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

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.

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've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.