Vinyl Quotations

Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection and exposed me to some amazing artists.

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!

I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.

I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

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

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

My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

I think some songs are better on vinyl.

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

I can't speak for the vinyl siding industry, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me to see a lawsuit emanate from this from some party involved. In fact, I would imagine it is inevitable.

People are in so much pain right now, and it's going to be very difficult to tell them 'no' when it comes to their property. Collectively, they may want their historic neighborhood. But individually, they might want vinyl siding.

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

We're also bringing back the original vinyl bag and a few other products by mid next year.

We found consistently less than one microgram of accessible lead in these vinyl lunch boxes. That is not a toxic level and it is a low level,

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.

There is a blurring of the lines between a printer and sign maker. It was a vinyl sign applied to existing posts on the beach. Is that sign work or just digital printing?

The original look is what we want to bring back, so the vinyl siding will come off. We are going to change quite a few things.

We went through a lot of trouble to get this big, blue, vinyl suitcase out of the tree. It was gone when we came back. We have no idea what was in it.

It's the same scenario when people replaced their vinyl with CDs -- people want the better version of their favorites.

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 know this was obviously before your time but, way back when, recordings were done on these things called vinyl records. We, in the industry, use to call these recordings '45's'.

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.

I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.

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

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.