Turntable Quotations

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

I admire the guys who can do it with as little technology as possible, two turntables and a microphone.

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.

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

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

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

If we had a concept on the turntable that was cute, people would look and move on. But when you add features and layer in some innovation to make it stand out, they might stop and look.