Music Collecting Quotes

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

I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls.

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.

When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.

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.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

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!

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

I really don't have any shelf music.

Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

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

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

I'm constantly buying records.

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.

I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.

I use Wikipedia and eBay; I look for singles for my 1950s jukebox.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.