1. Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual – it is a celebration – and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock’n’roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.-Grace Jones
2. 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.-Martha Reeves
3. Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!-Grace Jones
4.I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.-Lou Reed
5. Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautifulul art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.-Barry White
6. I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.-Adam Ant
7. Disco is the best floor show in town. It’s very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.-Truman Capote
8. Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America’s greatest by-product: fun.-Neil Bogart
9. 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.-Martha Reeves
10. A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I’ve never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.-Candace Bushnell
11. Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.-Giorgio Moroder
12. God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.-Donna Summer
13. So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?-Billy Connolly
14. I hate labels because it should be just music. I don’t see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It’s music.-Michael Jackson
15. I’m from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta… What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ and you’re up there like a demon.-Ian Mcshane
16. A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.-Frank Zappa
17. I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.-Hunter S. Thompson
18. I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to – like disco.-Daniel Clowes
19. Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh for a few years, maybe many years it will be considered passe and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented, caricatured and sneered at, or worse, completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and going like this! [Mimics Saturday Night Fever pose] But we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. Those who didn’t understand will never understand. Disco was much more, and much better than all that. Disco was too great and too much fun to be gone forever. It has got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.-Matt Keeslar as Josh Neff in The Last Days of Disco
20. Disco’s are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don’t.-David Mitchell
21. We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.-Barry Gibb
22. Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.-Clive James
23. Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places … where everybody sort of ‘looked good’ – and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job.-Frank Zappa
24. Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.-Giorgio Moroder
25. 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.-Tommy Lee
26. Disco is just pop music you can dance to.-Sheena Easton
27. We had been reminded once too often that we were just not with it. Where they had long hair and Woodstock, we had nothing to clearly call our own. We needed a kind of shared activity, scorned by our elders, which would bring us together as a group. At the disco, we have forged a generational banner. It’s great to feel special at last.-Bruce Pollack
28. 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.’-Rob Sheffield
29. When we made “Love to Love You Baby,” we knew it was somewhat innovative, but nobody knew people would jump on that bandwagon and all of a sudden the whole world would be going disco.-Donna Summer