Phonograph Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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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
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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
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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…
— Groucho Marx
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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…
— Edvard Munch
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
— Thomas A. Edison
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A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.…
— Marvin Minsky
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
— Ambrose Bierce
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
— Tom Petty
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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…
— Elliott Carter
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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…
— George Bernard Shaw
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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…
— Thomas A. Edison
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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…
— Laurel Lea
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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…
— Dave Barry
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You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs…
— will.i.am
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Fidelity is for phonographs
— Saul Bellow
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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…
— Sophie Scholl
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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…
— Swami Satchidananda
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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…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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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…
— H.G. Wells
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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.…
— Karen DeCrow
Who Wrote These Phonograph Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Phonograph Quotes as follows: