Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grandmaster Flash

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

Hannibal Buress

I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

Clinton Sparks

He was an original, an innovator, and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you, DJ AM.

Todd Rundgren

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.

Grandmaster Flash

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.

Grandmaster Flash

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

Daren Causey

Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his craft.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

John Lasseter

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Tino Sehgal

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

Darren Criss

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

there are no inanimate objects ...

David Sedaris

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Isaac Asimov

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

William Shenstone

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Steve Holeman

Our staff objective for the spring is always to prepare for the fall. We wanted to work with the team in different systems and with a variety of players in different positions - a lot of experimenting. That being the objective, I think we had a successful spring.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Antonin Scalia

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

Eydie Gorme

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