Disco Quotes - Page 4

• I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.

  Jeff Baxter

  Thinking, Disco Music, Scary

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• Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Baby, School

  Song: Who Shot Ya?, Album: Born Again, 1999

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• I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what bubbles to the surface. A lot of this was part of Disco Night originally, and I suddenly started realizing, "If I keep working on this because I'm not done and I put all that in Disco Night, how can this be one book? Is it going to be too long and bloated and crazy?".

  Peter van Agtmael

  Crazy, Book, Night

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• As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

  Chuck D

  Teenager, Rap, Cutting

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Silly, Safety Pins

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Teenager, Rocks

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.

  Ginger Rogers

  Atmosphere, Turns, One Thing

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• I think one of my highpoints was definitely well, everything started turning around on Barry Manilow week. I had so much fun on disco week, love disco music. I think I picked some songs that really worked for me and people really enjoyed them. I loved doing the Donna Summers song and she was the guest judge, and she was the guest judge and I felt honored. She said she loved the song and said I made it my own.

  Diana DeGarmo

  Summer, Song, Fun

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• I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

  A-Trak

  Ducks, Sound, Sauce

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

  Rian Hughes

  Media, Convenience, Edited

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• Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

  Frank Zappa

  Fun, Stupid, Gun

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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Latin, Rocks

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• I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Form

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

  Dionne Warwick

  Play, Careers, Slumps

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• I'm not a big disco guy.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Guy, Bigs

  "Jersey Devil". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing.

  Dov Davidoff

  White, People, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 06, 2012

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• Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Book, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TV Special, June 1, 1996.

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• Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.

  George Clinton

  Making Love, Trying, Fax

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• I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

  Cillian Murphy

  Teacher, Careers, Pigs

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• I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

  Charlie Rowe

  Nice, Awards, Actors

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• My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Play, House, Beats

  Source: thequietus.com

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• English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

  Jay Rayner

  Food, Wine, Rocks

  "Blessed are the cheesemakers?" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin of Mexico City, which is more and more aware of how little it controls Tijuana politically and culturally. In addition to whorehouses and discos, Tijuana now has Korean factories and Japanese industrialists and Central American refugees, and a new Mexican bourgeoisie that takes its lessons from cable television.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Mexican, Mexico

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fitness, Disco Music, Cable Tv

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• Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  People, Want, Impossible

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