All things Quote by Colin Hanks

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing…

— Colin Hanks

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

— Bill Laswell

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and…

— Bernard Arnault

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in…

— Pantha du Prince

A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends,…

— Max Richter

“There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups…

— Gary Calamar

All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and 'Black Sands' documents this in real time…

— Bonobo

“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be no question,…

— Roland Barthes

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

— Kieran Hebden

The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and,…

— Wayne Coyne