Disco Quotes

• Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Inspirational, Dance, Disco Music

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 28, 2013

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• Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

  Martha Reeves

  Party, Disco Music, Tomorrow

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• God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

  Donna Summer

  Successful, Disco Music, Born

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• Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

  Peter Tork

  Disco Music, Heavy Metal, Pops

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• So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Sexy, Humor

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• Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

  Barry White

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.

  Grace Jones

  Party, Rocks, Names

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Gay, Doors

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.

  Rick Dees

  Ducks, Dancing, Looks

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• Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

  Grace Jones

  Celebration, Sometimes, Get Up

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

  Kris Carr

  Positivity, Light, White

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jul 11, 2011

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• A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

  Frank Zappa

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

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• I used to be a wicked disco guy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Guy, Wicked, Used

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.

  George Clinton

  Booty, Funk, Knows

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Funk Legend George Clinton On The British Parliament". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 24, 2015.

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• I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Labels, Should

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• I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.

  Lou Reed

  Lying, Stupid, Sun

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• I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Hunters, Way

  Speech given to the University of Colorado Student Union, November 1, 1977.

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• I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  Holly Johnson

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

  Summer Glau

  Song, Workout, Latin

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• It’s like disco inferno up in here

  Rachel Caine

  Inferno

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.24, Allison & Busby

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• Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.

  Neil Bogart

  Fashion, World, Influence

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• There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

  Don Cornelius

  White, Hip Hop, Forever

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Disco is just jitterbug.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Justice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

  Adam Ant

  Religious, Hymns, Religion

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• Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

  Tommy Shaw

  Sound, Band, Clubs

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