Machine Quote by Shirley Marr

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents…

— George Michael

“Aren't people just like gramophone records?”

— Agatha Christie

We had a wind-up gramophone long before I came along, and it moved on to a Dansette record player. That's how I heard the…

— Shakin' Stevens

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record…

— T. S. Eliot

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the…

— George Orwell

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

— Marvin Ammori

“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

— George Orwell

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the…

— Hugh Masekela

“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.”

— Christopher Isherwood

I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.

— Anonymous

“People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . .…

— David Toscana