Famous Quotes & Sayings

We could generate $10 million or $15 million a week in just CD money. When we first started, they were 75 to 80 percent of our total deposits. Now, they are 20 percent.

Mavis Staples

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Our CD is doing well over there, so we're going to go over and play a few shows. It'll hit me once we're on the plane. It's going to be a new adventure.

Our CD is dedicated to her, ... That will be for her, in her memory.

Christopher Gorham

My wife forever has made fun of my Yanni CD that I had in college.

What we've created is a really friendly environment with relevant teaching, cool music, free food and if you come for the first time you get a welcome CD because we know people are looking for a church.

Doug Stanhope

Steal my stuff off the internet wherever you can and don't apologize. Buy the CDs and DVDs from my site and feel free to burn 'em and share 'em. Then come to the show.

Criss Angel

Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.

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.

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.

Jan Hammer

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

Brian Eno

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

Brian Eno

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

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.

Avicii

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

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.

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.

Ed Sheeran

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

Lou Reed

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.

Leslie Mann

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

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.

When you're trying to track a CD, you want to do transitions. But there was no way to do a smooth transition on the CD because everything is so different.

Kent Beck

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

Al Jourgensen

We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not. I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise.

We've been planning on that, too, for a few years and that hasn't happened. We did a Christmas CD in 2004.

Al Jarreau

I've thought about doing it as soon as it is possible with this new CD getting some wings and getting out there. I don't know how soon that will be.

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.

Mark Russinovich

I know this is the last copy-protected CD I will buy,

We've produced CDs of our own over the years. But this is a real record contract. Collectables is taking the risk.

Jack White

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

David Cross

I just recorded another CD for Sub Pop.