Tape Quotes

• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Eye, Self, Soul

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Eye, Giving

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• My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Scotch, Bird

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• Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

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• If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Cds, Political

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• At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 22, 2016

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• I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

  Eliza Dushku

  Safety Pins, Jeans, Clerks

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• So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

  John Frusciante

  Ideas, Use, Records

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• I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

  Brian Eno

  Art, School, Magic

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• I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Firsts, Composer

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

  Brian Eno

  Running, Years, Play

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• There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Running, Knows, Stillness

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Use, Truman

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• I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Done, Way

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• It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Guy, Awkward

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Way, Capture

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• My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

  Penn Jillette

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Imagine, Recorders, Knows

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I've always done music to push people to get them to get uncomfortable in their seat so they could wrestle with things. Not to become pew potatoes, just simply sitting there, growing fat with knowledge and not applying it. It's a mixed tape that's really aimed and geared toward hip hop culture.

  LeCrae

  People, Hip Hop, Culture

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• I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, My Husband

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• In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

  Albert Brooks

  Used, Screenplays

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• While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

  Garth Brooks

  Baseball, Song, Writing

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• When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Stars, Games

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• You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

  Jennifer Garner

  Fashion, Scotch, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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