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Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972. -- Kurtis Blow
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. -- David Byrne
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. -- Buddy Rich
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. -- Isaac Hayes
I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables -- Kid Rock
I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them. -- Eydie Gorme
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. -- Antonin Scalia
All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm. -- Jermaine Dupri
I can't watch a woman play with herself - to me, it looks like a DJ working the turntables... DJ Diddles. -- Dane Cook
I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight. -- Bob Dylan
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! -- Dan Fogelberg
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. -- DJ Shadow
I've made money doing things I love. DJing was a hobby. When I bought my turntables my mom said, "Oh what now, Taryn?" But it became pretty fruitful right away. I come from a very music-oriented family. -- Taryn Manning
What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song. -- Thomas Pynchon
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. -- Butch Walker
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. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- DJ Shadow
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. -- John Waters
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. -- Dr. Dre
It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop. -- Pete Rock
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. -- Christian Marclay
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. -- DJ Khaled
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done! -- Connie Britton
I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables. -- Kid Rock
For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer. -- Paul Oakenfold
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys. -- Elle King
I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself 'Grandmaster,' because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it. -- Grandmaster Flash
I knew there was a way to blend records together, but I didn't know how to. This was haunting me when I was in my teens. In my frustration, I decided to start experimenting with electronics. I tested the torque factor on different turntables. I had to figure needles out. See, there are two kinds, elliptical and conical. -- Grandmaster Flash
My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time. -- Grandmaster Flash
I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching. -- A-Trak
A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever. -- A-Trak

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