Record Stores Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Martin Scorsese

  Rocks, Records, Levels

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• Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Song, Morning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Nathan Followill

  Hands, Records, Artwork

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• I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

  Moby

  Records, Growing, Vinyl

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• 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

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

  Mark Hoppus

  Missing, Records, Stuff

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• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  Jason Sellards

  Love, Age, Rebel

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• I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Names, Imagination, Curiosity

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

  Matthew Sweet

  Growing Up, College, Imagination

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• One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

  Richard Branson

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  Dean Wareham

  Weed, Independent, Sea

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• I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going through all the bins looking for something new that seemed interesting to me and that could relate to what I was listening to at the time. This is why I want to support National Record Store Day.

  Joe Principe

  Growing Up, Thinking, Play

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• I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

  Beth Ditto

  Games, Long, Video

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• The decision to change the name meant we were getting serious, because we couldn't make a record if some other band had the same name as us.
  I told the boys I was in a record store, thumbing though 45s, and I'd seen a record with the name the Warlocks on it. I've often wondered whether I hallucinated it, because I never saw the record again and I never heard a word about any band called the Warlocks.

  Phil Lesh

  Boys, Names, Decision

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• The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.

  Dale Watson

  Heart, Artist, Avid

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• But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

  Julianne Hough

  Records, Trust Me, Stores

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Webbie

  Song, Cds, Hot

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• 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.

  Nate Ruess

  Home, Journey, Play

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• I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Men, Independence, Records

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• 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.

  Shawn Mullins

  Mom, Independent, Character

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• 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.

  Lyle Lovett

  Country, Rocks, Long

  "Lyle Lovett's deep roots inform music, life" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2009.

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• 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.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, Mind, Austin

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• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Records, Spine

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• Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

  Glenn Danzig

  Buying, Records, Drink

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• I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is.

  Frank O'Hara

  Regret, Clouds, People

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