Jukebox Quotes

• Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Music, Country

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.99, Penguin

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• Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

  Steve Almond

  Soul, Misery, Idiot

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.6, Random House

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• I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

  Joni Mitchell

  Strong, Laughing, Alive

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• I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

  Michael Chabon

  Song, Needs, Said

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• It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Home, Simple

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

  Kim Mitchell

  Song, Rock And Roll, Body

  Song: Lager and Ale

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• Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Ocean, Men, Rope

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

  Chace Crawford

  Girl, Beer, Pool Table

  "Chace Crawford is named Hottest Bachelor", www.today.com. June 17, 2009.

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• jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Dawn, Poison, Television

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• All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Summer, Lonely, Heart

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• But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

  Tom Waits

  Guy, Might, Telephones

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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  We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Travel, Road Trip, Homesick

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

  Richard Simmons

  Song, Nicknames

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2014

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• Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.

  Susan Sarandon

  Character, Entering, Sometimes

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

  Mark Chesnutt

  Song, Sadness, Night

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• I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing!

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Karaoke, Humans

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• That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

  Stanislaw Lem

  Tunes, Coins, Records

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 204, 1970.

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• Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.

  Pablo Francisco

  Fun, People, Giving

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

  Squarepusher

  Father, House, Kitchen

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

  Carlos Santana

  Artist, Rocks, Wind

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  We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Homesick, Nostalgia, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

  Tom Waits

  Years, Rays, Restaurants

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

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• I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

  Billy Childish

  Cds, Play, Silence

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• It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

  Robert Hilburn

  Country, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

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