Turntables – Quotes

I had a lot

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them. Eydie Gorme

I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life. Dr. Dre

Just like on Guitar

Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn’t very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same. DJ Shadow

You can be a

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero. DJ Shadow

We go hard. In

We go hard. In everything we do we’re going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we’re going to win. I haven’t taken a loss because everything I’ve done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming … Read more

Yeah, anybody can go

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. David Byrne

I can’t watch a

I can’t watch a woman play with herself – to me, it looks like a DJ working the turntables… DJ Diddles. Dane Cook

You’re successful if you

You’re successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! Dan Fogelberg

For my birthday this

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like Blue Kentucky Girl, by Emmylou Harris, and Off the Wall, by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s Purple … Read more

If the music in

If the music in a groove fits with what you’re playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn’t work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn’t work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen … Read more