Best Old Records Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.”

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“Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.”

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“I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.”

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Author:Jack White

“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.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.”

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Author:Amber Heard

“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.”

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Author:Rakim

“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.”

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Author:Robert Crumb

“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.”

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Author:Lux Interior

“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.”

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Author:Ella Henderson

“Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.”

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Author:Michael Gira

“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.”

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Author:Arik Roper

“I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.”

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Author:Christian Louboutin

“Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.”

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Author:Bonnie Tyler

“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.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover.”

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Book:The Goldfinch

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“My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.”

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Author:Tom Petty