Turntables Quotes

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  Dan Fogelberg

  Writing, Successful, Wow

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• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  Buddy Rich

  Fire, Light, Together

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• I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables

  Kid Rock

  Kids, White, Littles

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Jan 30, 2014

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• Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Lonely, Cds

  "How I taught my son to love vinyl" by Tony Myers, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2013.

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• A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

  Antonin Scalia

  Bottom, Happens, Ifs

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• I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

  Bob Dylan

  Needles, Knows, Stunned

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  Isaac Hayes

  Art, Brother, School

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

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• All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Records, Clubs, Needs

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• Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

  Kurtis Blow

  Saws, Firsts, Persons

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• Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

  Kid Koala

  Musical, Pits, Orchestra

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• I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

  Eydie Gorme

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• What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Song, Differences, Records

  Thomas Pynchon (2015). “Inherent Vice”, p.334, Random House

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• It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop.

  Pete Rock

  Father, Teaching, Inspiration

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• I've made money doing things I love. DJing was a hobby. When I bought my turntables my mom said, "Oh what now, Taryn?" But it became pretty fruitful right away. I come from a very music-oriented family.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Hobbies, Things I Love

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Cds, Interesting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

  A-Trak

  Play, Guy, Vinyl

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

  Dr. Dre

  Mom, Reaching Up, Years

  "Dr Dre will see you now ... but you won't hear Detox until 2011" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it's a big deal to me to listen to music in it's purest form like that.

  Butch Walker

  Nice, Home, Vinyl

  Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

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• I can't watch a woman play with herself - to me, it looks like a DJ working the turntables... DJ Diddles.

  Dane Cook

  Play, Watches, Looks

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• I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

  A-Trak

  Use, Djs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

  David Byrne

  Home, Two, Littles

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• I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.

  John Waters

  Couple, Dvds, Today

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• You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Hero, Vices

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

  Connie Britton

  Birthday, Girl, Wall

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

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