Cds famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
-- Alan Jackson -
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
-- Alicia Machado -
A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.
-- Angie Stone -
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
-- Anne Dudley -
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
-- Anthony Minghella -
There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
-- Anton Corbijn -
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
-- Arthur Godfrey -
I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
-- Avicii -
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
-- B. B. King -
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
-- Bill Hicks -
Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.
-- Bill Maher -
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion...
-- Bill Milkowski -
I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
-- Billy Childish -
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
-- Bjork -
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock
-- Brad Paisley -
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash
-- Brendan Fraser -
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
-- Brian Austin Green -
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
-- Brian Eno -
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
-- Candace Kita -
Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass...
-- Canibus -
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
-- Chance the Rapper -
I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.
-- Chris Black -
I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.
-- Cindy Sherman -
I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.
-- Clark Terry -
The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
-- Clifford Stoll -
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.
-- Conor Oberst -
It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.
-- Craig Benzine -
Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.
-- Criss Angel -
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
-- David Byrne -
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
-- David Gilmour -
A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.
-- David Lynch -
I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD.
-- Deborah Cox -
Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.
-- Derek Sivers -
Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.
-- Dimebag Darrell -
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
-- Dionne Warwick -
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
-- Ed Sheeran -
If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.
-- Eminem -
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
-- Emo Philips -
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.
-- Ester Dean -
CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
-- Evan Dando -
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
-- Gavin Bryars -
So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
-- Geddy Lee -
The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.
-- Gene Hoffman -
When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
-- George Duke -
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
-- Gerald Caiafa -
The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.
-- Gerald Caiafa -
CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.
-- Girl Talk -
But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.
-- Glenn Danzig -
This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
-- Gloria Estefan -
He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.
-- Greg Behrendt -
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
-- Greg Graffin -
Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.
-- Gretchen Wilson -
A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.
-- Helen Slater -
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
-- Henry Rollins -
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
-- Ian MacKaye -
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
-- Jackie Evancho -
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
-- James Gleick -
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
-- James Wolcott -
Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.
-- Jan Hammer -
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.
-- Jay Chiat -
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
-- Jimmy Page -
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
-- Joanna Newsom -
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.
-- John Carmack -
Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the day, people want to go to a party.
-- John Digweed -
The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
-- John Mellencamp -
If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on
-- John Peel -
I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
-- Jon Lech Johansen -
I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.
-- Jonathan Davis -
The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.
-- Julia Barr -
Hopefully when he moved his things out of the apartment, he at least took his CDs. I mean, we might be gay, but… Enya? Really?
-- Julie James -
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
-- Kate Clinton -
There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.
-- Kathy Mattea -
When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
-- Ken Hensley -
I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.
-- Lauren Lee Smith -
Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.
-- Leona Lewis -
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win
-- Liz Phair -
It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
-- Liz Phair -
People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.
-- Liz Phair -
It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
-- Mark Hoppus -
I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
-- Martin Freeman -
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
-- Martin Parr -
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
-- Meek Mill -
Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.
-- Metta World Peace -
With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
-- Michael Bolton -
What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.
-- Michelle Kwan -
It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released
-- Mick Taylor -
These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms
-- Mick Taylor -
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
-- Miguel -
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
-- Mike Rutherford -
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.
-- Miroslav Vitous -
I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.
-- Mose Allison -
We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.
-- Neal Schon
