Ezra Koenig Quotes

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

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.

My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

I started using vinyl because I stole all my parents' records when I was 10. I didn't think about sound quality then, but I always loved how they sounded.

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.

Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

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

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 got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope.

My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.

I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.

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.

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

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

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

I collect vintage vinyl records.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.

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!

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

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!

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

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