Quotes About Vinyl Records

For those who still love to spin the black circle

We all know at least one vinyl record purist: For them, cassettes are horrible, CDs are worse, and MP3s are an absolute abomination. These quotes are about the vinyl experience for those who still love to spin the black circle.

1. “Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise.’” -John Peel

2. “The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel, and vinyl.” -Dave Barry

3. “There’s no romance in singing about an iPod.” -Jack White

4. “Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.” -Billy Gibbons

5. “I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.” -Conor Oberst

6. “The digital world is so convenient and nice, but just playing back a vinyl record is a much warmer, hotter, more present feeling.” -Steve Miller

7. “I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don’t even like listening to music in the car.” -John Lydon

8. “I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else’s entertainment, not mine.” -Robert Smith

9. “There’s no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It’s nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.” -Simon Le Bon

10. “My record collection probably tells the story of my life better than I could in words.” -Colleen Murphy

11. “Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.” -Steven Wilson

12. “Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren’t many record stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.” -Billy Gibbons

13. “If I was a billionaire, and had my time all over, I would invest all of my money in setting up a factory to produce vinyl records again.” -Roger Daltrey

14. “Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album. And it’s not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.” -Jack White

15. “When you’d buy vinyl, you’d have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you’d read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.” -Kate Bush

16. “I don’t think it’s real unless you put it on an LP. CDs aren’t real. Anybody can do that.” -Bob Pollard

17. “A great song is a great song, whether it’s on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.” -Moby

18. “Coming from the era of vinyl, you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.” -Andy Summers

19. “I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There’s nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.” -Nikki Sixx

20. “Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.” -Henry Rollins

21. “I think it’s important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the Internet.” -Norah Jones

22. “The album’s not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.” -Jimmy Page

23. “I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.” -John Prine

24. “The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.” -Edgar Bronfman Jr.

25. “Thank God for vinyl! It’s wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I’m absolutely blessed.” -Johnny Mathis

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