Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Linus Torvalds

Some people have been seen as freeloaders, selling Linux CDs and hardware and making money that way, ... But they're doing Linux a big favor by making it easier to install and approachable to normal people. It makes it a more viable OS.

John Mellencamp

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

Jonny Greenwood

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

Jan Hammer

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

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.

Brian Eno

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

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.

Drivers are more important than softwares, still we have more software CDs - just like workers are more important than managers, still we have more managers..

David Chalmers

To do two CDs worth of a very well known composer is a little different, but what isn't different is that one of the things we established when we started recording was that we were going to record things that were not as well known and that I think we've been fairly consistent about, even with famous composers.

Everyone thought we had so much choice with video and CDs and just the technology we had five or 10 years ago,

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.

Cindy Sherman

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.

Anne Dudley

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Talib Kweli

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

Steve Jurvetson

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

Steve Jobs

If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.

Steve Jobs

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

Taryn Manning

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix

Scott Aukerman

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

Michelle Kwan

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.

John Peel

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

Noah Baumbach

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

Michael Bolton

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD

Meek Mill

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.

John Updike

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Mose Allison

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.

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.

Music fans deserve to know whether EMI's copy-restricted CDs are exposing their computers to security risks. When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble.

Nursery rhymes are cheap. They don't cost like CDs and movies. You can get them second-hand, you can have them memorized.

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