Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you…

“The Phonograph knows more about us than we know ourselves,” Thomas Edison wrote in 1888. “For it retains the memory of many things which…

— Amanda Petrusich

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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…

— Barry Goldwater

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I…

— Thomas A. Edison

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished,…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Anonymous

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…

— George Bernard Shaw

Fidelity is for phonographs

— Saul Bellow

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…

— Elliott Carter

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…

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— Phyllis Diller

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.

— Ronnie Johnson

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

— Tom Petty

“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it necessary that,…

— Maurice Renard

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…

— Laurel Lea