Quotes About Disco

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

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

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

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.

Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song Stayin' Alive. A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that's right. I've got a talking disco sword and you don't.

I wander back to Musicals and wonder for a minute if Janet would like something stupid like Xanadu or Roller Boogie. But I shove them back into the display bin because I don't want to die of a disco aneurysm. I grab Urgh! A Music War, but put that back too.

She smiled. You're looking hot, dude. Gregori strutted toward the door. I'm too sexy for my cape, too sexy for my fangs. Too sexy. He whirled in a circle, then struck a disco pose with a hand pointing at the ceiling. Too sexy! He left with a flourish of his cape. Shanna grinned. I think he enjoys being a vampire.

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.

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 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 started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

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.'

And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.

This kid, he has to remember, this freaking junior varsity water boy, cut the heads off five men and rolled them across a disco floor like he was duckpin bowling. Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm, Eddie thinks.

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 used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn't doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

I wouldn't be caught dead in a disco.

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

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

I don't do disco.

People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.

I never really did any disco dancing.