Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mars

When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

Tove Lo

There are some nights where I don't get enough sleep, or we're traveling a lot. And then I'll go do a radio show, and the DJs are usually so energetic. And they're like, 'Why aren't you excited?' I say, 'I am excited. I'm just Swedish. This is my excited. I can't get to an American excitement level.'

Todd Rundgren

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Kaskade

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

Nas

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution is: I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Daren Causey

Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his craft.

David Sedaris

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

there are no inanimate objects ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Tino Sehgal

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

John Lasseter

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

Darren Criss

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

Isaac Asimov

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

William Shenstone

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Charlie Munger

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Eydie Gorme

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