Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drivers are more important than softwares, still we have more software CDs - just like workers are more important than managers, still we have more managers..

A lot of the soothsayers and prognosticators could have been making it look like stores are going away in a year, that CDs are going away, ... I think that right now, for the foreseeable future, people are confident that physical CDs in a package in a store will be the mainstay for the future. That doesn't mean that this (digital) distribution method won't be growing ... but the research says it's going to be a small part of the business.

Gretchen Wilson

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

Everyone thought we had so much choice with video and CDs and just the technology we had five or 10 years ago,

Linus Torvalds

Some people have been seen as freeloaders, selling Linux CDs and hardware and making money that way, ... But they're doing Linux a big favor by making it easier to install and approachable to normal people. It makes it a more viable OS.

John Mellencamp

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

Jonny Greenwood

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

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

Consumers have spoken -- they are tired of paying the high cost of CDs and DVDs and prefer more flexible forms of on-demand media delivery.

Casey Jones

It's like he's a scout for the NHL or something. Him and Dan sit down there in a hotel room and they get the two-year-old training CDs and they watch these horses run and it was his eye that picked the horse.

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.

Glenn Danzig

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

Miguel

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

Gloria Estefan

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

If customers want to store more than 20 CDs worth of songs, they should consider one of our hard-drive players.

Eminem

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

It's kind of the evolution from the days of fan clubs, with famous people meeting fans and signing CDs and gear. Now we are able to offer something more interactive. It's the kind of opportunity that doesn't exist in other forms of media.

It's been a lot of fun. It's been amazing. We just got through a U.S. tour with Social Distortion where we were selling 80 CDs per night, which is a lot. It was crazy.

It's the same scenario when people replaced their vinyl with CDs -- people want the better version of their favorites.

Peter Lynch

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Joanna Newsom

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

Jimmy Page

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Lauren Lee Smith

I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

Peter Jackson

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

Leona Lewis

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

Julian Ovenden

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Mose Allison

I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

Martin Freeman

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

Nikki Sixx

I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.

Marvin Hamlisch

Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.

Liz Phair

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

Mark Hoppus

I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.