Warren Zevon Quotes

When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.

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.

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.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I like to shop for old jazz albums.

My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle, and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school, and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

I like to support local record stores.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

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

People don't go to the record store anymore. It's crazy. The culture used to be so much stronger. People would go and support you, and go pick up the album. Not just for the music, but for the liner notes, for the artwork, just for the whole thing and to have it, and be able to say, 'I have this album.'