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I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

— Bobby Vinton

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✓Similar Perspectives

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

— Patrick Stump

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

— Raf Simons

I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.

— Diplo

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

— GG Allin

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

— Mark Hoppus

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

— Dolly Parton

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

— The Notorious B.I.G.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

— Natasha Bedingfield

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

— Tony Bennett

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

— Jamie Cullum