#collector

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music. ↗

— David Crosby

#atlantic #because #collectors #companies #good

My archive project is a multiedged sword. It is something I love doing, but it raises some questions about my motives in doing it. A writer accused me of building my archives just to further my own legend, whatever that is. I hope you don't believe that. What a shallow existence that would be! I remember reading that article saying that about me. It pissed me off. It's my life, and I am a collector. I collect everything: cars, trains, manuscripts, photographs, tape recordings, records, memories and clothes, to name a few. The fact that I want to create a chronological history of my recordings and supporting work is proof positive that I am an incurable collector, confronted with an amazingly detailed array of creations that I have painstakingly rat-holed over the years. ↗

— Neil Young

#dreams

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#collects #espionage #finished #finished product #gets

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#causes #collector #cupboard #evaporate #good

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#drink #make #miss #shoot #strong

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person. ↗

— Tom Felton

#i #much #person #sort #suppose

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#desire #guitars #however #i #own

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #collectors #common #common knowledge #finest

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#collector #faces #fetch #guitar #had

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess. ↗

— Joshua Homme

#exclusively #gotten #guess #i #point