Gramophone Quotes

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

Whatever your parents do, you get conditioned to that. I remember my dad would put gramophone record, and would sit and read a book. And then once a week, we would go and watch a movie.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the time I was five years old - to the Modernaires and Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.