Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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

I'm the die-hard that still goes out to buy records.

Before I was a reporter, I worked at a record store in New Jersey.

I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

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

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

I didn't have a record player.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

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!

In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.

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

I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

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.

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.

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

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!