Quotes About Phonograph

#1. After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

Barry Goldwater

#2. Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Thomas A. Edison

#3. 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

#4. Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

Swami Satchidananda

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

P.J. Wolfson

#6. Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd want me to make records for that awful phonograph. Haven't time to be a public benefactor, so I'll just sing you this little song for your own amusement.

L. Frank Baum

#7. The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

Marvin Ammori

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

Karen DeCrow

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

Phyllis Diller

#12. Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

David Josiah Brewer

#16. You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Groucho Marx

#17. 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

#18. I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

Claes Oldenburg

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

Tom Petty

#20. What does she look like?" he asked again, his voice taking on a tinny phonograph quality as his sister consumed my attention.
"A candle flame that can't decide if it has the strength to keep burning.

Cat Winters

#21. My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

Jerry Hunt

#22. And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went

W. H. Auden

#23. And for almost four hours they sat at the opposite ends of the couch, the portable phonograph on the coffee table before them, their faces lit with silent and sorrowful fascination, listening as the music of a dead world filled the summer night.

Stephen King

#24. I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Woody Norris

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

Julia McNair Wright

#26. 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

#27. After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

H.G.Wells

#28. Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jesse Stone

#29. Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.

J.M. Darhower

#30. We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Josh Silver

#31. Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#32. When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

Annet Mahendru

#33. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them ever again

Janet Fitch

#34. Life doesn't wait. You have to make it happen. You have to live it while it's happening around you. Life moves on.

Catherine McKenzie

#35. Fidel, in a speech, had told the people, We are all Afro-Cubans, from the very lightest to the very darkest.

Assata Shakur

#36. I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

Henry Miller