Browsing Topic Best Turntables Quotes

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

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

In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They’re wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They’re doing something that I think is interestingly physical.

If the music in a groove fits with what you’re playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn’t work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn’t work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don’t do that too often.

I’m a big vinyl listener, I’m a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it’s a big deal to me to listen to music in it’s purest form like that.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you’re actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

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

We go hard. In everything we do we’re going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we’re going to win. I haven’t taken a loss because everything I’ve done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It’s a blessing.

You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn’t very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same.

I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

A certain administration which I won’t call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that’s the birth of hip-hop.

I’m an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s – I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don’t listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.

All the records I’ve made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

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

I can’t watch a woman play with herself – to me, it looks like a DJ working the turntables… DJ Diddles.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

You’re successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.

A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.