Top 88 Disco Quotes

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

I like to dance disco.

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.’

I like music that is upbeat, such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. Or anything disco – I will listen to that, too.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the ’70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the ’70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

There are no Soul singer Wilson Pickett singers in disco.

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.

That big hit ‘Get Lucky‘ is a disco song – not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that’s great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers.

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they’re more techno.

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.

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

‘Spectrum‘ is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it’s a real euphoric, wailing tune. It’s kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We’ve got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.

In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers – like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.

I’d been listening to some old ’70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, ‘Let’s go into the studio and do something different. Let’s do something that’s super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.’ ‘Trouble‘ is what we did. It’s something that wrote itself.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the ’70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums – what’s great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

I’m really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There’s a lot of us that are – kind like James Murphy, same thing – we feel like it’s this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn’t even necessarily disco.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It’s a part of maturing, I guess – just learning that it’s not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

I never really did any disco dancing.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

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.

My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I was surrounded by music.

I don’t do disco.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

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

People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.

I didn’t really like the ’80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco’s music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the ’60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the ’70s and through the hospital wards of the ’80s and onwards to the streets.

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone’s game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach – her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

But disco is the remedy for ghosts.

We weren’t that big fans of Disco.

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

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.

I was the first Indian music composer to win the China Gold Award for ‘Jimmy Jimmy’ from ‘Disco Dancer.’ Adam Sandler repeated the song in his film ‘Zohan.’ ‘Disco Dancer’ is historical, as are ‘Sharaabi’ and ‘Namak Halal.’

Despite being an ocean apart, New York‘s ESG and France’s Lizzy Mercier Descloux were shooting for roughly the same idea: disco beats with a rough and energetic presentation.

I heard ‘Get Lucky’; it’s just not my taste. It’s great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Electro is today‘s disco – making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

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

Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.

I created ‘Disco Abs’ so you could have as much fun getting in shape as I do.

I’m a sucker for sad disco pop.

Outside of Peruvian rap-rock, few genre tags raise eyebrows quite like the words ‘Nigerian 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’m so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I’m obsessed with him.

I’m happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.

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

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.

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

Twenty years ago I went to see this show The Best Disco in Town Live, it was all these disco acts like Gloria Gaynor and Tavares and I had the best night of my life. There was no new music, it was just hits you loved growing up.

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

GN’R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I’m hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

The most important tip is to find a workout that you love – one that you’re excited to go to. And do it with a group of friends. That’s one of the reasons I created Happy Hour. It’s effective, but it’s also really fun to dance together under a disco ball.

I didn’t really feel like a girly girl. I didn’t want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, ‘Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky t-shirts and flat caps.’ It was just perfect timing for me.

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places.

On ‘Overpowered,’ there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I’m a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe – and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know – that humanity will figure it out, so I’m optimistic about the future.

Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don’t listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo disco to Appalachian country music, but I don’t know what their records sound like. I hardly listen to my own records. I’m like Cher!

Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching ‘Disco Dancer;’ I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

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.

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.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, ‘Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it’s impossible because it’s sold out.’ It’s really amazing.

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.

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

I don’t like music that much… I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. I’ve liked those since way back when.

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.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.

Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Disco music can only take you so far because it’s plastic.

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.

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.

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

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.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I’m the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

I knew some people at my school who were squatters, and my younger brother was a squatter. I knew those guys: those were the people who said the Russians were the good guys and the Americans were bad. But I was the guy who went to the disco.

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

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.