Back Quote by Marvin Ammori

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but…

— Elliott Carter

We had a wind-up gramophone long before I came along, and it moved on to a Dansette record player. That's how I heard the…

— Shakin' Stevens

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

— Tiny Tim

Voice is the first instrument.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

— Rostam Batmanglij

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

I was a musician first of all.

— Jonas Blue

My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by the mechanics…

— DJ Premier

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc,…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

— Max Martin

Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders…

— Pauline Oliveros