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  • Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  • A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

  • I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

    Teacher   Half   Dozen  
  • Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

    Prayer   People   Mind  
    Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist
  • They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

  • I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

    "A Photographic Talk with Edison". Interview with Theodore Dreiser, Success Magazine, February 1898.
  • Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

    Talking   Office   Tears  
    "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.
  • By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

    Color   Doe   Lines  
  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.

  • A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

    Tired   Men   Records  
    1908 The Bishop of Chelsea. Getting Married.
  • We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

    Guy   Musical   Forget  
    Source: thesource.com
  • Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

    Reading   Eye   Winter  
    Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”
  • After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

  • PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

    Life   Noise   Toys  
    Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation
  • When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  • I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.

    Spring   Clouds   Wind  
  • After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

    Book   Savages   Letters  
    H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3304, Delphi Classics
  • I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

    Aunt   Boys   Records  
  • Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

    Technology   Men   Long  
  • A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

    Pain   Moving   Heart  
  • That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

    Eye   Play   World  
  • I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  • You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
  • Fidelity is for phonographs

    Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics
  • You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

  • At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  • In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

    Writing   Mean   Roots  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.

    Book   Simple   People  
    Big Think Interview, April 8, 2010.
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