Gramophone Phrases

Phrases

• America's best record (Puritan Records advertising slogan)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Broken record
• ET phone home (ET)
• Each Record a Masterpiece (Van Dyke Records advertising slogan)
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• For the record
• Get the needle
• Hold the phone
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In record time
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)

• Music to my ears
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Off the record
• On the record
• Phone a friend (A catchphrase from Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
• Phone home
• Phone in sick
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Popular music
• Set the record straight
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• Through the eye of a needle
• Track record
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Waiting by the phone
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Work the phone
• World music
• World record