“I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.” RunningRecordsFingersStoresOver ItSpineRecord Stores Author:Twyla Tharp
“Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.” KnowsWayMindMeanProblemSeemsFictionRecordsReaderFindingsStoresOne WayLabelsGenreFavouriteFilesAustinRecord StoresWaterloo Author:Charles de Lint
“My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.” LongCountrySometimesRecordsRocksPopsStoresCategoriesSectionsBack WhenRecord Stores Author:Lyle Lovett
“I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away” PeopleWorldValuesLinesGoneRecordsDiscoveryStoresLocalsSuggestionsGreat MusicKnowledgeableRecord StoresGone Away Author:Peter Gabriel
“If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows and by mail order as an independent artist. The greatest stores that have character and include a much wider range of music of music are all independent, mom and pop stores.” IfsCharacterFactsShowsArtistOrderRecordsMomIndependentPopsStoresCriminalsRangeMailCdsRecord Stores Author:Shawn Mullins
“I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.” MenRecordsIndependenceStoresBrandsRecord Stores Author:Raheem Devaughn
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.” FeelsLongI CanImportantPlayHomeRecordsJourneyMusicianOriginalsRewardsIncrediblesFinishedStoresShirtsPacksTouringTrophiesThriftSuitcasesLong JourneyRecord StoresFleeceEmbarking Author:Nate Ruess
“The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.” PeopleThinkingLooksArtRecordsLike YouHeroStoresThese DaysMuseumsRecord Stores Author:Wayne Coyne
“I always show love to the local record stores because they actually listen to me... They know the songs on my cds. They look like me, straight out the hood. They know whats hot and what is on they shelf.” KnowsLooksShowsSongRecordsHotStoresLocalsLike MeShelvesCdsHoodListen To MeRecord Stores Author:Webbie
“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles” RecordsRocksBandAreasEnglandAlbumsStoresLos AngelesChicagoMailPunkPunk RockSwedenRecord Stores Author:Dave Grohl
“I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.” RecordsGrowingStoresPopularityVinylRecord Stores Author:Moby
“[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.” WorldAgeOrderFoundHouseRecordsNew YorkHorseStoresLocalsMagazinesCopiesPunkColumbiaRecord Stores Author:Michael Stipe
“Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.” WayWritingKindImportantIdeasEndsPlayBigsUsedSpiritRoomsRecordsRocksStageMusic IsBeatsDown AndCome UpStoresSatCollectionsRock MusicSoundtracksVinylRecord Stores Author:Quentin Tarantino
“When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.” LittlesYoungGuySidesRecordsNew YorkMarkGuitarConnectedEastStoresWanderComicNotebookBookstoresRecord StoresWandering AroundEast Side Author:Marc Maron
“In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.” PeopleGivingPastArtistNextPayRecordsCuttingMajorsPreparedAlbumsStoresLabelsBuyingTunesBe PreparedNext DayMarketplaceCdsExposingRecord Stores Author:Chuck D
“I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.” StuffGrowing UpRecordsGrowingStreetsNew YorkStoresGrantedAvenuesGroceriesGrocery StoresRecord Stores Author:Noah Baumbach
“I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.” IfsThinkingRecordsGenerationsMovedStores80sCdsRecord Stores Author:Julianne Hough
“Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.” KidsParentRecordsMomMy MomStoresToysRecord Stores Author:Daron Malakian
“I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.” IfsSidesRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpStoresContinuityVinylRecord Stores Author:Amos Lee
“As an experience, as a listener, for me, I miss the record store. I miss going in and knowing the guy at the counter and being like, "Hey," knowing that he was going to hate the record I put on the counter, and still buying it. That takes some guts.” StillsGuyHateKnowingRecordsMissingStoresHeyBuyingGutsListenersRecord Stores Author:Amos Lee
“When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.” KnowsKidsChoicesRecordsAlbumsStoresCaptainsRecord StoresCaptain Beefheart Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.” KnowsWantTryingKidsSongPayRecordsFindingsAlbumsStoresCentsIntrigueRacksDownloadsRecord StoresAlbum Covers Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'” LightWantedRecordsBandStoresCoffeeBossSadisticRecord StoresIguanas Author:Iggy Pop
“I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!” SaidHardRecordsStoresThey SaidRecord Stores Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.” LevelsBehindsRecordsRocksSourceMusic IsRadioDeeperStoresRecord Stores Author:Martin Scorsese
“Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too.” HandsRecordsStoresArtworkRecord Stores Author:Nathan Followill
“I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.” KindUsedRecordsStoresNerdRecord Stores Author:Patrick Stump