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Record Player Quotes

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
- Leo Kottke

I didn't have a record player.
- Harrison Birtwistle

I hate hearing other people taking shits. Still, I've got nothing else to listen to on my record player but these crude recordings I made in my youth.
- Jarod Kintz

Last night as your breathing
settled into sleep
what I heard was the half-forgotten sound,
the velvet rush and hiss,
the automatic click
as the record player's arm runs out,
is brushed away
at the record's centre,
the pulse of its subsiding
oddly comforting.
33 1/3 rpm.
The knowledge that when the music ends,
there will not be silence.
- John Knowles

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
- Linda Mccartney

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
- Will Oldham

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.
- Jack White

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
- Alastair Wood

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