Josh Silver Quotes

You should listen to a lot of different music.

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

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

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

I really don't have any shelf music.

My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.

I got a lot of vinyl, a lot of music in general in the house.

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

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.

I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that.

I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.

Axl's favorite record in 1987 was 'Faith,' by George Michael.