phonograph quotes

The phonograph†is not of any commercial value.

-Thomas Alva Edison
c.1860  Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull. Edison hoped that his invention would find a place in businesses and offices, rather than in the entertainment world. Quoted in Robert  A Conot  A Streak of Luck: The Life and Legend of  Thomas Edison (1979).

He had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

- Barry M(orris) Goldwater
  On the windy presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey. With No  Apologies.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

- George Bernard Shaw
 The Bishop of Chelsea. Getting Married.