Quotes About Record Shops

#1. I've always enjoyed the record shops ... they gave me a reason to leave my house.

Pete Yorn

#2. I usually disliked whatever was being played on a music store's speakers. It spoiled the pleasure of thinking about other music. Record shops, I felt, should be silent spaces; there, more than anywhere else, the mind needed to be clear.

Teju Cole

#3. I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch

#4. In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.

Michael Dirda

#5. I turned myself into a vinyl hawk, scouring record shops for out-of-print LPs, studying them with Talmudic intensity. The music I loved would all be dug out of studio archives and put onto CD within a few years, but then it was still scratchy and moldy and entirely my own.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

Richard Branson

#7. A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs. She kissed it very softly. If happiness were a color, it would be the color of this beetle, thought Wil.

Katherine Rundell

#8. I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

Cameron Russell

#9. I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

Tom Brokaw

#10. The fatherhood crisis is a generator of an incredible dimension of fornication and adultery.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Bruce, on his right foot, is still running ...

Alan Green

#12. Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you
covet.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#13. Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.

Alistair Begg

#14. If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

Sheldon Richman

#15. Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life ... It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#16. The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing clouds towering up and sailing on it, but it has blue vigour in it, and at a short distance it painted the ranges of hills and the woods a fresh deep blue.

Karen Blixen

#17. If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

Wayne Pacelle

#18. The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

Larry Winget

#19. 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