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I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?' -- Dolly Parton
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. -- Muddy Waters
I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise. -- Caitlin Rose
My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar. -- Doc Watson
Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records. -- Will Rogers
My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. -- Tom Petty
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. -- Rakim
We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going. -- Tommy Hilfiger
To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records. -- Jakob Dylan
There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in. -- Robert Crumb
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why. -- Adele
I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music. -- Ella Henderson
I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music. -- Arik Roper
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory. -- Billy Corgan
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records. -- Ashley Monroe
Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree. -- Terry Teachout
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it. -- Ian Anderson
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce. -- John Lennon
Old Korn records had so much intensity. -- Chino Moreno
Old age is just a record of one's whole life. -- Muhammad Ali
There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records. -- Martin Gore
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. -- Liz Phair
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one. -- Bonnie Tyler
You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday. -- Gerard Way
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. -- Steve Stoute
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to. -- Mark Hoppus
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record. -- Scott Weiland
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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. -- Tim Gane
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make. -- M. Ward
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
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records. -- Marc Maron
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. -- Joan Jett
Get down with your old Allman Bros. records! -- Bryan Ferry
I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe. -- Dan Fogelberg
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market. -- Francesca Lia Block
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. -- Neil Innes
They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't. -- Richard Lloyd
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. -- Alice Morse Earle
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. -- Pinetop Perkins
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn. -- Dimebag Darrell
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. -- Patti Smith
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast. -- Wes Borland
If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is. -- Chris Isaak
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy. -- Lenny Kravitz
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records. -- Syd Barrett

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