Phonograph Quotes

• Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

  Groucho Marx

  Talking, Office, Tears

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

  Don Herold

  Teacher, Half, Dozen

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• Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

  P.J. Wolfson

  Technology, Men, Long

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• The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Past, Echoes, Mind

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  Thomas A. Edison

  Great Inventions, Invention

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• At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  Tom Petty

  Perspective, The End Of The Day, Records

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• PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Noise, Toys

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Doe, Lines

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• Fidelity is for phonographs

  Saul Bellow

  Fidelity

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

  will.i.am

  Guy, Musical, Forget

  Source: thesource.com

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• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  Laurel Lea

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Talking, Machines

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• Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reading, Eye, Winter

  Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trials, Invention, Anything Worth Doing

  "A Photographic Talk with Edison". Interview with Theodore Dreiser, Success Magazine, February 1898.

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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• In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

  DJ Spooky

  Writing, Mean, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Play, World

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• The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Majority, Pioneers

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• You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• 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 there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  Elliott Carter

  Aunt, Boys, Records

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Life Lesson

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• A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tired, Men, Records

  1908 The Bishop of Chelsea. Getting Married.

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• They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

  Phyllis Diller

  Records, Measurement

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• I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.

  Sophie Scholl

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

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