Vinyl Records Quotes

“This luxury of mind began with a RECORD.”
― K. Johnson-Bair

“All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.”
― Rashod Ollison, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl

“I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room.”
― Geoffrey O'Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

“I'm fairly tired of hipsters. They have terrible taste in music. These kids come in and say, 'You don't have anything that was released this year?' That makes me crazy. We don't need anything from this year! (Bob Diener, owner of Record Swap in Champaign, IL)”
― Eric Spitznagel, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

“Down these mean crates a man must dig." page 41.”
― Andrew Cartmel, Written in Dead Wax