Top 90 Disco Quotes

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It’s not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called ‘D.I.S.C.O.’ by a band called Ottawan. It’s a really fearless disco track from the ’70s or early ’80s.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.

I can’t help but love all music, but nu disco is my new favorite.

But disco is the remedy for ghosts.

There are no Soul singer Wilson Pickett singers in disco.

When I say dance music, it’s anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It’s not relying on melody in the same way; it’s more about rhythm.

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.’

All disco singers are non-professionals who can’t do live shows. It loses what black people have created.

I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the ’80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, ‘Look, you’re just not marketable enough with the weight problem.’

If you get the disco or rap format on the radio, an R&B record doesn’t fit, because it will break up the mood.

I never went to any disco, I didn’t know anything about dance.

I did a short film called ‘Disco’ and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there’s lots more to come.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

I grew up watching ‘Disco Dancer’. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

EDM is, like… Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops… Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They’re just kinda like, ‘Now, now, now – do it, do it.’

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that’ll be the thing to do.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

I told Celine Dion not to record that ‘Titanic’ song. That’s about as big as you can get. ‘Flashdance?’ I thought, ‘Welder by day, disco dancer by night – who wants to see that?’

When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content – about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.

My love for the Bee Gees and their disco vibes is huge.

I’m so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I’m obsessed with him.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

I didn’t realize how limiting an R rating is. I made ‘Disco’ as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

Everyone abroad knows me because of the songs ‘Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja’ and ‘I Am A Disco Dancer,’ both from ‘Disco Dancer.’

I always really loved soul music but all my friends were into the new romantic scene. I’d go to new romantic clubs and then go home and listen to soul music. I was sort of ashamed of listening to disco and soul music!

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of ’30s Universal monster movies.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Disco told audiences to dance, while punk told them to be anything but passive. The artists didn’t mind; in fact, they encouraged it.

I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I’m a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz – Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari – so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything – disco, hip hop.

People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over, that it was just a fad. But we didn’t anticipate being knocked out of the pocket altogether.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of ‘Saturday Night Fever.’ I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

I’m not a big disco guy.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He’s still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.

I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went to a drum and bass disco.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that’s plagiarism, that’s taking other people’s music.

I’ve always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even – dare I say it – disco.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that ‘disco’ music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn’t need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I really wanted to be a blues/jazz/gospel singer, but times had changed and disco was now the music – the new sound. I embraced it with all my heart and the rest is history.

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

On one of my birthdays, I wanted to go to a disco, but Daddy refused permission. But when I insisted he finally took the entire family to the disco for five minutes.

The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early ’80s called Flipper’s. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.

La Flavour’s ‘Mandolay’ is a disco classic – I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

I like to dance disco.

Obviously the music I listened to growing up helped create my musical pallet. My parents were into pop, soul, disco, RNB, Latin, jazz and Middle Eastern music.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

I am the godfather of disco.

I can’t just turn over and sing disco or rock.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Outside of Peruvian rap-rock, few genre tags raise eyebrows quite like the words ‘Nigerian disco.’

Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere.

I love to dance in the disco, but that’s about it.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain’t playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That’s hip-hop.