Discs Quotes

• Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

  Jean Genet

  Music, Song, Memories

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

  Casey Kasem

  Team, Opportunity, Korea

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• Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

  Placido Domingo

  Video, Singers, Young

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• It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Past, Heritage, Magazines

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• The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Nashville, One Day

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• I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

  Edward Felten

  Thinking, Problem, Protection

  "Sony fix for glitch has glitch / Security problem could take turn for the worse" by Hiawatha Bray, www.sfgate.com. December 8, 2005.

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• I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

  Mike Rutherford

  Kids, Cds, Generations

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

  Frank Darabont

  Hate, Boys, Talking

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• For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

  Duncan Sheik

  Second Chance, Records, Familiar

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• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Lawrence Welk

  Order, Practice, Band

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Heart, Sight

  "Eric: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  William Blake

  Fire, Vision, Sun

  'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95

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• I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

  Calvin Trillin

  School, Jockeys, Remember

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• All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.

  Paul Merton

  Jockeys, Noel, Talent

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

  Renee Fleming

  Christmas, Singers

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• I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

  Billy Campbell

  Thinking, Lovely, Reminiscing

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Hero, Men

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Animal, Light, Organization

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• As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

  David Byrne

  Ephemeral, Cylinders, Music Is

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

  Tom Waits

  Player, Hands, Cds

  Interview with The Onion A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. May 29, 2002.

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• These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple geometric shapes-discs, ovals, spheres, cylinders-and surfaces that looked like metal. Such shapes are not only nonexistent among known aircraft, but contrary to all known theories of flight, in most cases offering control and performance disadvantages rather than advantages.

  Don Berliner

  Simple, Offering, Geometric Shapes

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• I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. [This] resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Issues, Overcoming

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• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Integrity, Army, Years

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.

  Steven M. Greer

  Nice, Life Changing, Boys

  "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.

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