Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Clinton

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Ken Hensley

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

Robert Crumb

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

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

Steve Jobs

I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we've achieved together during the past three years. Over 1 billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.

Jane Siberry

There's an 'honor table' with a box of CDs and a money jar. They cost me $2 each to make, but a lot of people are paying $20. They say, 'There's no way to pay you more for your music,' so it opens the door for people who want to balance how much value they get from the songs.

Cowboy Troy

It seems like it all happened so fast, ... But basically I've been working at it in Dallas for 15 years at frat parties and clubs. I've been recording CDs and giving them out to people, talking about it. The CDs either ended up used as Frisbees or beer coasters.

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.

Consumers are clearly making the most of all the choices they have to discover and purchase music, and physical product is still a very large part of the equation. For example, among teens, sales of CDs are up five percent in 2005, illustrating a halo effect from digital music, interaction with video games and other venues for new music discovery.

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.

In 2004, the average game buyer was 37 years old and the average game player was 30. Knowing this, our industry creates a wide range of content for a diverse consumer audience, just as other entertainment industries do. And, it's illogical that video games would be treated more harshly than R-rated movies or music CDs with parental warning labels, both of which can be legally viewed and sold to minors. How can you treat a video game based on James Bond any different than a book or movie based on the same subject matter?

Greg Graffin

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

Dontrelle Willis

How did I survive without this? Carrying around all those CDs ... man, how did I live like that?

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.

The CD was supposed to be gone by now. But I suspect people are going to be buying CDs for a while yet.

Eliot Spitzer

It is unacceptable that more than three weeks after this serious vulnerability was revealed, these same CDs are still on shelves, during the busiest shopping days of the year,

it's illogical that video games be treated more harshly than R-rated movies or music CDs with parental warning labels, both of which can be legally viewed and sold to minors.

Deborah Cox

I just bought a bunch of CDs and downloaded them into my I-pod. I bought the Seal record, a Swahili drum album, and there's some original African drums that I listen to before the show.

In just over a year Napster has attracted a community of more than 20 million music fans who are sampling music, discovering new artists, buying CDs and sharing their passion for their favorite artists in our chat rooms.

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

Jimmy Wales

I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.

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.

Meek Mill

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Paula Abdul

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.

Martin Parr

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

John Updike

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then why don’t you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don’t want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel’s Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I’d take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)

Nicolas Cage

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

Nick Wechsler

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

Nicki Minaj

Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

Norah Jones

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.