Benjamin Hoff Quotes

The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.

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

I didn't have a record player.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

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

Vinyl's like a really juicy steak compared to like a kind of tough steak or something. It's really good. And once you listen to vinyl and get a chance to hear it, I think anyone will enjoy it more than they will digital.

I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.

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

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

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!

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

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

If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.

'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

The digital world is so convenient and nice, but just playing back a vinyl record is a much warmer, hotter, more present feeling.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

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

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.