Tape Quotes - Page 16

• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Moving, Artist, People

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• My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Attention, Machines

  "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  Adam Osborne

  People, Special, Hell

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• I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

  Alan Parsons

  Tvs, Cameras, Research

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

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• I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, High Fidelity, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Bigger And Better

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.

  Amy Ray

  Book, Writing, Play

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Practice, Pieces, Rooms

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

  Tony Randall

  Nuts, Play, Wells

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  Daley Thompson

  Lying

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• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Narrators, Surveillance

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• If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, World

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• There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Long, Yards

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• I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Independent, Office, People

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• We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Special, Progress

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• Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

  The Amazing Johnathan

  Magic, Sound, Sometimes

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

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• Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!

  Richard Branson

  Red, Way, Reason

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2014

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• I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

  Noto

  Art, Interesting, Sound

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• In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.

  Ekoplekz

  Cutting, People, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

  Roger Glover

  Song, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even need [analog] tape.

  Tony Visconti

  Thinking, Needs, Gears

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Differences, Broken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Writing, Vcr, House

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Smart, Phones, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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