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  • The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. -- Dave Barry
  • There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. -- Lily Tomlin
  • Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music. -- Tim Hecker
  • I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. -- Robert Smith
  • Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures. -- Billy Gibbons
  • 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. -- Nikki Sixx
  • I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. -- Quentin Tarantino
  • You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl. -- Shelby Lynne
  • 'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. -- Phil Daniels
  • Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl. -- Neil Young
  • I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital. -- Tim Hecker
  • You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side. -- Tim Hecker
  • My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding. -- Jonny Lang
  • I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. -- Quentin Tarantino
  • The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!! -- Peter Hook
  • I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont... -- Steven Wilson
  • I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car. -- John Lydon
  • Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive. -- Jack White
  • With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
  • A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert. -- Sylvie Simmons
  • The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round. -- Billy Gibbons
  • It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop. -- Pete Rock
  • 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. -- Frank Iero
  • Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. -- Phil Daniels
  • Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off. -- Neil Young
  • 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. -- Adam Mansbach
  • Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out. -- Ray Romano
  • I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. -- Conor Oberst
  • More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. -- Peter Hammill
  • If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window. -- Douglas Coupland
  • When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation. -- Anton Corbijn
  • 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. -- Reid Scott
  • Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance. -- Will Oldham
  • I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet. -- Norah Jones
  • It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl. -- Martin Gore
  • We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player. -- Jack White
  • I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s. -- Lady Starlight
  • People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork. -- Laura Marling
  • 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. -- Henry Rollins
  • A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. -- Moby
  • If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. -- Kelly Clarkson
  • My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl. -- Talib Kweli
  • The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl. -- Peter Sarsgaard
  • I love vinyl, man. -- Amos Lee
  • I collect vintage vinyl records. -- John Varvatos
  • I think some songs are better on vinyl. -- Brendon Urie
  • Kids today don't know that much about vinyl. -- Martin Gore
  • It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • I'm not extra'd out. I got a cool little vinyl collection. -- Ab-Soul
  • I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home. -- Amber Heard
  • I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl. -- Lily Allen
  • Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine. -- Billy Gibbons
  • I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right! -- Brendon Urie
  • Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. -- Francesca Lia Block
  • A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever. -- A-Trak
  • People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side! -- Ken Hensley
  • We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about. -- Anthony Kiedis
  • I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample. -- RZA
  • I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance. -- Saul Williams
  • I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance -- Saul Williams
  • I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores. -- Moby
  • I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection. -- Annie E. Clark
  • I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it. -- Simon Taylor-Davis
  • I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise. -- Caitlin Rose
  • I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy. -- David Lynch
  • There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl. -- John Vanderslice
  • My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. -- Kiki Dee
  • My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler. -- Patrick Fugit
  • I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them. -- Conor Oberst
  • 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. -- Kate Bush
  • 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! -- Peter Hook
  • 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. -- Brendon Urie
  • 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! -- Simon Le Bon
  • 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. -- Simon Le Bon
  • 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. -- Kate Bush
  • I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music. -- Amos Lee
  • I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores. -- Ayshay
  • Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl. -- Chris Squire
  • Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back. -- Mark Hoppus
  • Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there. -- Melina Marchetta
  • My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career. -- Rokia Traore
  • It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. -- T Bone Burnett
  • I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing. -- Art Spiegelman
  • I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud! -- Brendon Urie
  • I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers. -- Judd Apatow
  • 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. -- Dave Grohl
  • I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl... -- Daniel Lanois
  • When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included. -- Ken Hensley
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