Evan Parker Quotes

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.

My mom probably has a record player. I might need to get one.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

I didn't have a record player.

There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

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!

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

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

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 had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds so much better.

I wanna buy vinyl and I want to listen to records on it. I want to put on 'Dark Side of the Moon' in the dining room while I'm eating pasta or whatever. You know what I mean.

I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.

There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs.

A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.