Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cheyenne Jackson

I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.

Anton Corbijn

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

We could generate $10 million or $15 million a week in just CD money. When we first started, they were 75 to 80 percent of our total deposits. Now, they are 20 percent.

Mavis Staples

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Most graduates on that level of income will be spending more than that on CDs each week,

B. B. King

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.

Jim Brickman

Listening to the CD and coming to the theater are very different experiences. I've always had the feeling that piano could be kind of a snooze if you just place one song after another. I'm the only thing to look at onstage, so it's up to me to make it as entertaining as possible.

I was told about a guy who used the CD drive to hold his coffee cup.

Spike Jonze

I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.

I have a huge rock and metal CD collection. I'm looking forward to my guitar playing and learning more about music.

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

If this takes off, it could steamroller the copyright protection on CDs the labels are pushing.

Robert Webb

I did 'The Frank Skinner Show,' and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.

When you're trying to track a CD, you want to do transitions. But there was no way to do a smooth transition on the CD because everything is so different.

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.

Lou Reed

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Leslie Mann

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

Kent Beck

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

Bette Midler

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.

Jan Hammer

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

Avicii

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

Arthur Godfrey

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.

Billy Childish

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.

Ed Sheeran

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.

Dan Ariely

If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

will.i.am

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

Al Jarreau

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

Ted King

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

The prospect of future rate hikes will push yields on CDs even higher, making them even more attractive.

Kenny Chesney

When I go pick up a record, anybody's record, and put it in a CD player, I want to be taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride. I want to feel, I want to laugh, I want to cry, I want to remember somebody, I want to be moved some way.

We did these three tracks and flew back home. I don't even think the CD was mastered. We just mixed it and put it out. We wanted it to have that spur-of-the-moment, raw feel to it.

Angie Stone

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.

Our CD is doing well over there, so we're going to go over and play a few shows. It'll hit me once we're on the plane. It's going to be a new adventure.